Em and I spent our first night in Amsterdam. 
We started off the night by just walking around until we found a little bar that looked like a fun place to stop and get our first Vistabreak beers - a round of Heinekens, of course. We also sampled the local food. The place served typical pub food, so we ordered a very American snack of French fries and chicken nuggets. However, just like Pulp Fiction told us, the French Fries were served with a side of mayonnaise. You can see the mayo laden tater to the right. After a few more beers, we headed out to see the sights of the red light district. For those unaware of the red light district, it's basically full of these houses of ill repute where prostitutes stand in front of windows facing the street. The johns then walk down the street and pick out their woman like they were ordering cold cuts from a deli. If this place were in the states, it would be a war zone, but it is actually very touristy and we both felt safe. There are even tour guides giving walking tours of all the "sights". Even more surprising, the bar we spent most of the night at was run completely by one, older woman. No bouncer!
We started off the night by just walking around until we found a little bar that looked like a fun place to stop and get our first Vistabreak beers - a round of Heinekens, of course. We also sampled the local food. The place served typical pub food, so we ordered a very American snack of French fries and chicken nuggets. However, just like Pulp Fiction told us, the French Fries were served with a side of mayonnaise. You can see the mayo laden tater to the right. After a few more beers, we headed out to see the sights of the red light district. For those unaware of the red light district, it's basically full of these houses of ill repute where prostitutes stand in front of windows facing the street. The johns then walk down the street and pick out their woman like they were ordering cold cuts from a deli. If this place were in the states, it would be a war zone, but it is actually very touristy and we both felt safe. There are even tour guides giving walking tours of all the "sights". Even more surprising, the bar we spent most of the night at was run completely by one, older woman. No bouncer!
At the bar in the red light district we met a group of middle age guys who were in the military and in Amsterdam for some sort of conference. They were sitting at a table that had a perfect vantage point of four of the prostitutes standing in their windows. You can see our vantage point in the video below. They were betting each other on how long it would take a john to leave the prostitute after entering the house. They generally set the over/under at 10 minutes. They used all sort of funny military lingo to describe this situation, such as:
- "Their is too much chaff. Can't make an ID" - Too many tourists standing in front of the windows, so we couldn't see the prostitutes.
- "Going to redeploy to another base" - Move to another bar.
- "Time to deploy ordinance?" - How long has the john been in the whore house?
After we left this bar we capped the night off with some greasy pizza and then headed back for the hotel.
french fries,pizza and prositutes what a nite! the outside of the hotel looks really pretty we checked it out on line.:)
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