Rainy sunday morning. We had awesome breakfast in korean hostel =) bimbimbap yumyum. and they gave us free bread, cheese, jam n nutella for our car trip today! what nice people they are. unlike the ones in London.
like i said, it was pouring. we've got lots of place to cover today. will be travelling within The Netherlands today.
Our first stop: Zaanse Schans.
A small little village town about 30mins away from where we stayed the night. A very touristy place. When we got there, it was raining so heavily, and the wind was sooo strong my umbrella flipped everytime there's a strong gust of wind. I shared an umbrella with Ella and we were literally fighting the wind with my tiny umbrella. So strong, we sought shelter at the nearby gift shop.
they had many many dutch products in the shop, mainly the cheese. different types of cheese were up for tasting and the goat cheese taste horrible! haha just like the ones i had in Aussie a yr ago. =X and i saw the Wafer that marc bought for me!!!! it's like in a corner, waiting for my attention! immediately grabbed 2. hehehe
okay too long in the shop, getting a boring, so we braced the wind and went out for the main attraction. Windmills! they had only 7 remaining windmills which stood at the Zaanse river edge. Magnificant. if only the weather was better. open green fields with small streams running across it. many small cute little houses clustered together to form a small village.
this time we're better at navigating with the GPS. travelling from one place to another became a lot easier. our second stop: Den Haag. only 1 thing i can say about this place. another boring city. -.- we didnt even bother getting out of the car to do sightseeing, because there's absolutely nothing interesting! but thanks to lonely planet, we found this Scheveningen. a long beach that attracts 9 mil visitors per year. winter at the beach? hmmmm interesting!
the wind is really really strong at the beach. and we tot there wouldnt be anybody at the beach in winter. we're so wrong! it's crowded with people. and forget about bikini babes and hunks in they surf pants. haha it's too cold! winter jackets and boots at the beach for today. there were people surfing though, only comment was " not cold ah?"
took lots of photos at the beach, it's a really beautiful beach, anytime better than sentosa. haha what am i talking about. =P lots of jumping. haha and 3 loves for Singapore. <3 collected 2 pretty shells too when i was on the way back to our van. =))
after spending quite awhile there, time to go! to the next city. 3rd pit stop of today: Delft. So much better than Den Haag. it's a really small, quaint little town. because we arrived there late, it was as though we were the only ones there. no one in the streets and it was getting dark and rainy again. nothing much to see again, just enjoy the little town feel, with 2 storey homes and cobbled streets. a river running in the middle of town and lots of tourist souvenir gift shops around. look at those huge shoes! haha
last place to go before heading for dinner, Rotterdam. Architecturally 'beautiful' city. according to the guidebook we're to see the Cube House, really in the shape of a cube standing on one of the tips. and there are actually people living in them! weird.
but anyhow, it's just another city again, nothing interesting and it's already dark at 5pm. and we were too tired and hungry to see other things. looking forward to dinner. Went to one of the picks from the guidebook, not a touristy place and the food wasnt as good as expected. no menus, only serve what is on the board. Beef or something else.
dinner was a quick one, i guess we were all hungry! haha only 8pm and we're left with nothing to do! and suddenly heeyeun n i had an idea, one place we've not visited in Amsterdam. and before we know it, we're back in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. walked about 10 minutes to the SEX MUSEUM! *peeeweeeet.
it's really sex through the ages, with pictures, real pictures of people taken in the photo studio. haha every way, position blah blah blah in pictures from the 17th century all the way till 1900s. eye opener. there's also a copy of the karma sutra in the museum too. got kinda bored after awhile because everything seem to look alike after some time. haha and yeah there's a telephone sex booth in the museum too which plays a pre recorded phone call. haha =P
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