I landed in Amsterdam, Schiphol airport at 7.50 A.M.

The flight with the KLM company was OK. This was my first flight, so I was a little scared from the turbulences.  My next flight to Shanghai was at 15.45 and I didn’t want to wait all that time in the airport. I wanted to visit something in Amsterdam but I didn’t now what and more important, how to get there.  So, I went to a tourist information desk and asked for a map of the city. The map costs 2Euro. The person at the desk told me that you can visit all important things in Amsterdam in half a day. You can get to the touristic center of the city by train. Every 15minutes a train is leaving for the Centraal Station. You can buy tickets from the ticket machines in front of the train station(the train station in the airport). The ticket was 6.40 Euro(to the center and back). From the airport you can get to the center in just 25 minutes.

A few things I could notice during my short visit:

- Most people living in Amsterdam use bicyles.

- You can buy a cannabis lollipop with only 1 Euro.

-You can smell weed almost everywhere.

In Netherlands prostitution is leagal. So is consuming drugs such as marijuana, cannabis and all kinds of mushrooms.  I hope i will come back next year and stay at least a week in Amsterdam … There are a lot of things to do that are legal only there

In Amsterdam you can find the famous red light district.  I couldn’t really see much, because at 11A.M.  everything is closed.

Posted by George as Travel Stories

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