6 September 2010
UITDAM - Netherland
Since we didn't bring any equipment for cooking in the campsite, we have to eat out for every meal. Thus, our diet depends mainly on what the restaurants/taverns offer us and on what we can choose from strictly Dutch menus that are rarely translated in English. This means that we hardly eat vegetables that are not fried potatoes. Consequently we have to deal with a huge problem: constipation of the worst type, the one that makes your belly bloated and puts you in a bad mood. Luckily, in our daily visits to the supermarket to get food for breakfast, we find out that they sell long-life milk in 4.3oz packages, and they have some kind of wholemeal sticks with 45% of fiber. This discovery and their daily consumption will make it mandatory to find a toilet maximum by 5-5.30 pm.
But let's leave our intestinal needs aside...
Today the plan included a visit to Leiden plus services (washing and drying), but since we couldn’t find a campsite that suited us, we decided to go directly to Amsterdam.
The city (Amsterdam) looks nice, but the first campsite we marked was really awful! I went inside asking for more info and I saw some junkies camped around, and while I was there, Bruttone saw a guy peeing in the river.
The second campsite that we checked was too expensive, so we ended up in Waterland (a different region from Amsterdam). Sadly, from there in order to get to the city, you have to take a bus which is not included in the Amsterdam Card.
We put up the tent, ate yesterday’s leftovers (everything is closed on Sundays) and did laundry. After that we went to look for a campsite closer to town, where we’re going to stay from tomorrow and for the whole Amsterdam stay.
Eventually we opted to stay in the second one that we saw today which has a metro stop at the entrance, even if it’s very close to the highway.
But my question is: all these druggies, aren’t ashamed? […follows a 30-minute sermon…]
Anyways, now we are eating in a restaurant where, as soon as we entered, a guy took our jackets, there is a poor blonde girl who is boiling glasses (to polish them?) and a waiter has an inside-out glove…what a place.
BRUTTONE’S NOTES:
Scary moments in the international community today, when “Dr. Unk S. Kunk” goes in front of his car, pulls out his third leg and happily pees into the river. “Se el se metea davanti a ala me machina lo butaa nel fosso” (if he did it in front of my car I would have thrown him into the ditch) Today’s campsite is the result of my strong need to evacuate…
