23rd July - Amsterdam

Had breakfast early in the morning. Got caught stealing sandwiches. Once we were ready yo go out we headed towards Anne Frank’s house. It was pissing down and there was a really long queue so we gave up on that idea. We walked to the Mushroom gallery. We thought it was going to be a magic mushroom museum, but it was more of a shop. We looked around a bit then went to find a coffee shop. We found one called Abraxas. We sat outside with our chococcinos and had a spliff. Then we left to go to the museum (to be cultural) but we didn’t want to pay. We went to the other mushroom gallery which was pretty much the same. They were giving away free ‘energy’ powder – “like speed but herbal.” So me and Lu had sniffed a line. Didn’t give us anything except cinnamon in our noses!

After that we walked to find a coffee shop to buy some space cakes. We ended up back in Abraxas. We ate two between us before going back to the hotel. We met our new room mates who we accidently woke up:
-Ed: sounded like a soothing American TV presenter – NYC
-Sergio: very emotional, pretty sure he had ADHD – Harvard
-Ben: Stand up comedian, needless to say he was funny – Harvard.

The space cakes started to kick in then. We went for dinner downstairs – the burger really was as nice as Josh told me it was. We ended up being really giggly and trying to listen to music that, retrospectively, probably wasn’t there. We met Nathan again too, he kissed us on the cheeks... he’s not French...

We realised we had been sat there for an hour, not doing anything, so we finished our food and left. We walked to the Red Light District and saw loads of prostitutes who propositioned us... (or maybe not.) We looked for a cheap sex show, but we were being tight and didn’t want to spend too much money. We walked around a bit more. At one point some guy walked towards us, grabbed Alex’s arm saying “how much? How much??” Quite scary!

We went to a few coffee shops and sat there for a while then started to make our way back. Got quite lost on the way! Louise managed to get us back though. Sleep time!