Both are reasonably dirty places that have offensive odours at times. Although both have difficult public transport systems when you only speak English (we miss the MTR in Hong Kong), Amsterdam is easy to get around as all the tourist areas were within walking distance of our hotel. Frankfurt on the other hand is a bit more spread out.
Amsterdam was always fun to walk around as there was always things happening and nice canals (even though the water looked gross) with lots of tourists, whereas Frankfurt was more like an ordinary biggish city.
In both Amsterdam and Frankfurt (as with Hong Kong) the people were very rude. Always very pushy and no concept of orderly queues. Everything was very expensive and was probably good that we only had several days in these places or we would be broke.
We can see how these European cities are very popular with older tourists, as the main attractions seem to revolve around museums. For example in Frankfurt, the number one attraction was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s House, someone neither of us had ever heard of.
The thing that neither us of us will miss about Europe is the toilet paper, or rather, the rolls of newsprint that they pass for toilet paper. You would think that when you have to pay to use a public toilet (we even had to pay in a restaurant and in shopping malls) that they could at least provide some decent quality toilet paper. The worst part about having to pay is that they only accept exact change, so you are out of luck if you do not have the right coin.
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