Amsterdam Day Three

We began the day relatively earlier.. it was a saturday and the weather was gorgeous for a bike ride! did you know most of the people in Amsterdam cycle around? There's actually bicycle lanes and bicycle traffic lights... which of course we struggled to abide by.. but naturally 7 people with no experience on cycling alongside cars on bikes with no brakes (u had to backpedal to slow down- that's brakes for the Dutch) were a recipe for disaster.. we caused damn alot of commotion, nearly crashed into pedestrians numerous times and effectively created our own traffic rules that earned us alot of stares and vulgarities haha.. but overall we survived the whole 5 hour ordeal in 1 piece.. it was a good experience too! also made me realise how much i need to build up my stamina.. haha..

the bikes costs 6.30 euros for a whole day thanks to Tim's discount card.. we cycled to a flea market n it was awesome even better than the one in Rouen! This flea market sold almost everything anyone could possibly want.. its like Singapore's pasar malam kinda thing... we bought lots of stuff and they were all super cheap.. well we also bought alot of food.. had to try this Dutch delicacy known as a 'mackerel sandwich' (consists of smoked mackerel that looks kind of raw but tastes heavenly)... we shared one declared it fantastic and went ahead to buy one more plus a paling fish (prepared the same way) and a fried cod fillet!

After devouring all of that we also bought a King Waffle for 1 euro! now here is where i introduce our most fantastic buy of the whole trip! Stroopwaffles! well it basically is syrup waffles n it is superbly delightful! it was so good all of us bought extras to bring back to Singapore! lucky you people this is good stuff we'll be giving out k! hahaha.. and we had to search 3 different Albert Heijns in order to find them so be appreciative k? lol...

at about 4pm, we went on a day trip outside the city of Amsterdam! had to take a ferry across the river supposedly to see some historical site but we couldn't find it and we had to rush back by 6pm to return the bikes.. so we chiong-ed all the way back cos we took our own sweet time getting there.. this is where i realised how jialat my stamina has become haha..

having ate so much and became so poor from the flea market, shujun cherysa n i decided to skip dinner and went back to the hotel first where we watched American Psycho... i declare Christian Bale the hottest man alive.. watch it and u'll know why.. tho i cant say much about the story line of the show though.. jus find it too weird for me liao..

yay i love Holland! they have English shows there... 3 months in France with no english channels to watch (not that we have tv here anyways) is depressing.. finally we can channel surf and watch stuff we actually understand! and we also caught the Dutch version of "who wants to be a millionaire".. damn we can join u know.. even tho we dunno the language.. the questions until the 500 euro mark is quite easy.. see with 500 euros i can lessen the burden of my exchange haha..

we slept rather early.. i like amsterdam trip very slack haha...