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One Weekend: the Netherlands Janet Kuypers 1/17/24 The architecture in Bruxelles was really amazing; in Amsterdam we searched for pot, but it was only in coffee shops, and coffee’s not the drug for me. The man at the hotel looked at my passport with my Dutch name and pronounced it differently, so we left for the streets to find some nightlife. We did see some prostitutes on display for business while posing in literal window boxes of buildings at eye level when you walk down the street, but beyond that the bars closed at ten p.m. (and lucky you, every bar had fewer than four people inside). So at one bar we ordered one round of drinks before they closed that cost us nearly thirty Euros, then our only other option was to go a Mexican restaurant to get a half liter of Heineken, as long as we ordered food... The only food we got was tomato soup, which was a fitting nightcap for a town most tourists rave about. And sure, we saw the Anne Frank House and the Vincent Van Gogh Museum, but at this point, it was really time to move on.

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