A bright and early start to the day, we decided to head to Anne Frank’s House, which is now a museum. The line was long already by the time we got there (remind me not to go to anymore of the main tourist attractions in the cities in Europe) but the museum itself was very good. Inside of course is the exact house that the Frank family hid out in, along with Anne Frank’s original diary. For some reason, no photography was allowed inside.
All the walking we have done in the last week was taking its toll, and we decided to stop for a massage (well out of the red light district!) Jen got a hot stone massage.
We then had lunch and went to the sex museum, which did not have such big queues, but was still very full. The exhibits were a little different to most museums, and there were a lot of shocked faces. It basically told the story of sex through the ages through a huge collection of models, exhibits, videos, photos and paintings.
As we had heard, there a masses of bikes here, being the main form of transportation within the city area. What we had not heard was how crazy the biker riders are. They woosh around the streets at very high speeds (streets that are shared by both cars and foot traffic). If you are in their path, they ding their bell and then get angry if you don’t immediately move. They do not give way to cars or people, and we know from our taxi ride that the drivers are crazy also. What makes this situation worse is that not one of the bike riders we have seen was wearing a helmet. Wait, it doesn’t end there, we saw one person who had herself and three small children all on one bike, none of whom were wearing helmets. Sort of feels like we have gone back in time to when people where stupid.
Also saw a Police boat on the canals, so now we have seen Police here travel by boat, car, motorbike, push bike, horse and on foot.
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