Uncle Joe's place

This is the playground in front of Uncle Joe's place.

North Sea

Uncle Joe brought us to Den Haag (The Hague) to visit his apartment that is for rent.

It is located next to the sea and the wind was VERY strong.

People do bungy jumping from the tall mast at the end of the pier.

Exploring Amsterdam



Small and nice looking buildings.

Well maintained canals.

Proceeded to the famous Red Light District.....
Definitely not suitable for kids.

Adult toys...
Uncensored hard core pics....

The Fish Tanks.....
Prostitutes sitting behind glass doors waiting for their customers.
Most of them, if not all obviously have passed their prime.
Maybe they should pay their 'customers' instead...
Aida got a couple of 'Assalamualaikum ' from a few Mat Salleh....

Perli nampak....

Did not feel very comfortable and soon left for the train station to go back to Rotterdam.

Beware!!!

Warning to all visitors to Amsterdam.

The restaurants there only display the price of their food.
No price list for drinks.

A bottle of Coca Cola 500 ml cost us 4.50 Euros (RM 21) !!!!!!

Gay, gay, gay, gay.....Everywhere!!!! - August 05, 2006

Welcome to Amsterdam!!!

What a day to visit....

We arrived via intercity train that cost 45 Euros for return tickets for both of us.

From Centraal Station, we decided to take a stroll to the Anne Frank house.

The walk was lovely and pleasant.

This house is a museum where a 13 year old Jewish girl, Anne Frank and her family hid in a secret area within her father's office in Amsterdam during the Second World War from the Nazis. They stayed there from 1942 till 1944 and she kept her daily dairy. (something like blogging lah...).

Until one day someone betrayed them and all of them were rounded up to Austerwitz prison. Only her father survived. Anne Frank died 1 month before the war end due to typhus fever. Her diary was found, compiled and published by her father. The house is now converted into a museum and it was worth the long queue for the tickets.

Meanwhile, the canal in front of the house was jam packed with people and boat parades with loud music was going on.

It was THE GAY PRIDE AMSTERDAM 2006.

Gays....everywhere...

www.gayprideamsterdam.nl

Guess where are we?

Country of clogs....

Plenty of canals...

And windmills too.

Day 3 - Delft

A nice town.

It is more than 750 years old and owes its name to the word 'delving' or the digging of the oldest canal, the Oude Delft.

It is famous for its ceramics. A typical blue Delftware has its history more than 400 years ago where the Dutch learned the technique from Chinese porcelaine. As in other 'knowledge' transfer, they have made full use of it and the rest is history.

We went shopping for souvenirs.
Not the Delftware due to their astronomical prices...