Amsterdam, Netherlands

Horror house, breakfast, and bike lanes

This one is well well overdue. Marco, Fraz, and I were in Amsterdam for a bit in late 2018. We ended up having a great time wandering around the canals and shops of the city in late November as it was just starting to be decorated for Christmas.

One of the best things we did there was an over the top cheesey “horror house tour” thing. We spent most of the time trying to make the employees break character (a few times successfully) which served to break the tension for a few in our tour group who clearly spoke very little english but were absolutely horrified by the jump scares.

I will not ruin the end of the show for everyone but lets say it all culminated in a very dark room with my mate Fraz jumping a mile high when he found himself the target of one of the scares. Great times all around. Had to shake that one off a bit after with a visit to the body works exhibit (significantly less frightening).

Overall a great city filled with great people, especially if you can manage to find some places away from the thousands of tourists that descend on it daily.