Sunday 14th October Amsterdam

This morning we headed out to the Heineken factory - really excellent! We saw how they they made the beer, we went on a simulator ride as if we were the bottle! We mixed music at the DJ stations, watched advertisements from 1965 to 2003 and had a free sample. After 2.5 hours at the museum we went to the Anne Frank Museum. We walked through the museum which takes you through the house where she stayed with her family. We then went on a cannal ride where we saw the more pretty parts of Amsterdam - including a floating chinnese restaurant and a boat hotel where you paid by the minute! We had chinese for dinner as a group as it was our last meal together. Whilst we were there, a carnival was on in the main square and i went on one of the rides witha couple of others - only to suffer from extreme motion sickness afterwards, all the way home on the tram and wish i had never gone on it! The ride was like a big arm with seats at either end that went round - really high and got up to 4.5 g-force! We walked around the the red light district tonight with the group - what can you say - i have never seen such a disgustingly dirty city! Everywhere you went peopel where wasted, learing at you, offering you illicit drugs, vomitting or naked in a window! Amsterdam is not a city either of us think we will re-visit, however i am told that out of the city it is very beautiful, so maybe we will give another part of Holland a visit in the furture.