Day 29: Self touring Amsty

I got up nice an early (surprise) and strolled up to the floating flower markets - not impressive at all really. Then purchased breakfast goods from the supermarket for the masses. After brekky we walked to meet the free city tour guides but were too late and missed the tour so instead we downloaded an amsterdam app that had a guided walking tour- it was brills, super informative. Amsterdam is a great city. There are so many bridges and canals it reminded me of venice without the ridiculously narrow dead-ended confusing streets. The vibe is cool and reminded me a bit of melbourne- esp brunswick st. Everyone rides bikes and dresses a little indie. There is a ridiculous number of bikes thrown into the canals and left at the bottom each year... Among other things. I think I could live in Amsterdam. It's full of tourists but most of the time I felt quite safe and welcomed and everyone spoke English which is always helpful. After our tour of the main attractions including statues and churches of course, we shopped around and then headed back to get ready for Hannah's second birthday- the red light district pub crawl. This was fun. The red light district is interesting. We didn't expect the women to be so young and attractive but the ones with the window positions definitely were. Who knows what lies behind the scenes though... We learnt that the red lights were for women and the blue lights were lady boys- take your pick! The funniest scene was when a man walked out of one of the clubs and was cheered by absolutely everyone in the street! Apart from that there's not that much I remember from the night. Oh actually I might have had a dance off at some stage...