We went and got tickets for the tour bus and went to get one but there were a million people waiting. Quentin asked a worker and he said to come back after 2 because there was a cruise ship in with 10,000 people and they were all going on the tours! We didn't mind since we weren't in a hurry so we went and got some fries and Quentin ate the bread and then we went on the train to the area which has a bunch of museums. We wanted to go to the rijksmuseum but the line was out of control so we went over to the Van Gogh museum and it was the same story. We don't like to waste time waiting in lines when we could be doing something interesting so we changed our plans and went to the Heineken brewery instead.
We got straight in at the brewery and did the tour which was pretty interesting, they even have stables with horses there which they use for something (I can't remember). You got to go through and see all the things they use for the brewing and people did some talks about the ingredients and stuff. There is also a sort of ride you go on which takes you through the brewing and bottling process. Then they do a beer tasting and at the end of the tour you end up in a bar and get some free beer there so it was a good activity!
Since we had given up the idea of being cultured we decided to go to the ice bar after that. It's a place where everything is made from ice, the walls, the bar, the seats, the cups and everything! They give you a sexy silver poncho to put on and some gloves and then you go into the bar and have a couple of drinks and watch a '4D movie' which seemed actually to be an ad for LG and it was hilarious how terrible it was! It was mega cold in the ice bar (maybe negative 18 or something) so I was glad to get out of there after not too long! It was fun though, and something you wouldn't do everyday!
After the ice bar we went to go get the bus but it turned out we had just missed the last one for the day so we went on a different tour bus which I assume is actually the same route etc but this one was one you could get on and off of whereas the other one wasn't. When we were going around we realised that we had actually been to most of the places we were seeing already which was cool. The commentary on the bus was pretty rubbish but it was good to see the city anyway.
After the bus tour we went and got some big beers and some dinner from the supermarket and sat down by a canal. I had a bacon, egg and tomato sandwich and it was actually pretty good, better than you would expect from a supermarket. After we had our beer we went to find the place we would be meeting a bit later for a pub crawl and once we had done that we went and had a cider by the water while we waited. The pub crawl ended up being a bit late to start because someone had messed up something and noone came to pick us all up for a while.
Once they did we headed to the first bar and had some shots and beer. We ended up going to I think 5 places but we didn't leave until around 2am and we were definitely ready to go home by then! We had had so many shots and all sorts of drinks and talked to heaps of interesting people so it was cool. There were people from all over the world on the pub crawl, like from Scotland, Wales, Australia, Norway, England, Germany and probably heaps of others but I don't remember. The pub crawl was all through the red light district so we saw the prostitutes in the windows as we went past as well. They were much better looking than I expected! And quite popular! When we went to get the night bus home we accidently got the wrong one at first and went a bit out of town before we realised and had to come back in! We got back to camp eventually though and had a good sleep.
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| Inside the Heineken brewery |
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| Quentin in the brewery where you can get your name on the bottle if you want |
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| In my poncho at the ice bar |
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| Hanging out by the canal in the afternoon drinking big beers |
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| The pub crawl has begun! |
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| Running through the park in the rain, exciting! |
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