I'm back in Amsterdam, tuckered out from a long day of sightseeing in the Munsterlands. Yup.
We went to Munster this morning by car, looked around the old part of the city and saw several very old cathedrals, houses, and castles. Then we poked around the countryside and saw a few "water castles" (i.e. those with a moat) of variable sizes. Not the big whopping things you see on posters of Germany, but still well-known structures.
I almost missed my connection back to Amsterdam in Duisburg when the regional express train I was riding stopped for a solid five minutes for no apparent reason. It turned out that they stopped because children were playing on the tracks. WHUT?! We weren't even out of the city! I call it natural selection.
Anyway, "express" was a bit of a misnomer and the train was over 15 minutes late. Luckily, I didn't miss my connection because the ICE was over 20 minutes late. If I had missed it, I'd have had to wait a good long while for the next train back to Amsterdam.
I had a spiffy seat up in the head of the train, set just back from the driver. It would have been better, however, if he hadn't chain smoked cigarillos the entire time, letting the haze drift from his compartment into out "smoke-free" car. BLEGH.
But I made it back and with time to take my aunt's two dogs, Ballo and Rex, for a walk along the river. Tomorrow I'll try to see the countryside and perhaps the Anne Frank House, which is more famous for its lines than anything else. Though I like art, I'm not a huge museum fan, and thus I'm avoiding the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. I will be hitting up the Red Light District, smoking a joint some-where, and taking in a little schnapps at a place called (believe it or not) Fockink.
Posted on July 13, 2006 @ 3:10 PM | 1 comments
We went to Munster this morning by car, looked around the old part of the city and saw several very old cathedrals, houses, and castles. Then we poked around the countryside and saw a few "water castles" (i.e. those with a moat) of variable sizes. Not the big whopping things you see on posters of Germany, but still well-known structures.
I almost missed my connection back to Amsterdam in Duisburg when the regional express train I was riding stopped for a solid five minutes for no apparent reason. It turned out that they stopped because children were playing on the tracks. WHUT?! We weren't even out of the city! I call it natural selection.
Anyway, "express" was a bit of a misnomer and the train was over 15 minutes late. Luckily, I didn't miss my connection because the ICE was over 20 minutes late. If I had missed it, I'd have had to wait a good long while for the next train back to Amsterdam.
I had a spiffy seat up in the head of the train, set just back from the driver. It would have been better, however, if he hadn't chain smoked cigarillos the entire time, letting the haze drift from his compartment into out "smoke-free" car. BLEGH.
But I made it back and with time to take my aunt's two dogs, Ballo and Rex, for a walk along the river. Tomorrow I'll try to see the countryside and perhaps the Anne Frank House, which is more famous for its lines than anything else. Though I like art, I'm not a huge museum fan, and thus I'm avoiding the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. I will be hitting up the Red Light District, smoking a joint some-where, and taking in a little schnapps at a place called (believe it or not) Fockink.
Posted on July 13, 2006 @ 3:10 PM | 1 comments
Comments:
You better have so. many. pictures.
By 
Lazy Lightning, at
3:40 PM, July 13, 2006
