Amsterdam: Day Two – Saturday

Woke up at 7AM and wrote until 10AM. Then decided to take advantage of my breakfast buffet served at the Hotel.

And off I went, camera, Ipod in hand. I almost died with my computer bag yesterday and so decided to take it easy today. By the way, I have decided today’s Amsterdam theme music is Talking Heads music on shuffle!!

As usual I was delighted with the service of this hotel. Everyone is just goddamned sweet. I felt like I was in Disneyland. I really had a blast with the front desk goddess Shanna. In fact she prepared the first of many gifts I have received every day I come to my room.

I walk in and there is a teddy Bear, porcelain jar of mini candy bars, a tin of Stroopwafels (Dutch yummy wafers) a bottle of wine, fruit tray… it’s just wonderful. My ole buddy from NU sho nuff hooked his girl up!! I feel like a Rapstar!! Where da Crystal at?

Anyhoo, I decide to go walking towards the /red Light /district which involves me walking thru Amsterdam tourist central… down the main drag: Damrack.
And it is packed with people and vendors. The temps are very mild. I am wearing a fleece jacket and hat…no coat or gloves. It’s sunny and the air is electric. We are all happy to fuckin be here man!! And I thought it would be slow here! HA!

Anyway, I enter the smut corridor, suddenly the shops all say SEX, SEX, Ecstasy and the windows are filled with porn and photos of penises and tits!
Cool! But it also starts to feel sleazy, like Sodom & Gomorrah. It’s like it’s time to jump down the rabbit hole cause a new world’s about ot hit yo ass.

But first, I decide to delay my foray into my favorite fascination… and go thru some of the canals along the way to smut, drink & reefer heaven. Plus it’s not even noon yet.

So after taking a coupla of pseudo artsy shots

I come across my new best friend: Darren and his lil pup Hugo. Actually I am walking along this canal and notice three guys staring up at a gorgeous gabled house. So I join them and we are all staring at the house, then Darren takes the doggy and starts walking and I notice how gorgeous he is and the dog too and ask if I can take his photo.

I hear his accent (American) he hears mine and the rest is history. You know how you just bond with someone immediately? That was me & Darren. Then he introduced me to his partner Camille and my first round of drinks starts at a predominantly gay bar called Angel at about 2PM

Then the boys leave and Imove to the bar and that’s when I come across Nikola and Ulrika from Germany and we proceed to start doing shots of Sambuca (three PM)

After my eight hundredth rip to the toilet I decide it’s time to venture outside of the womb or bar I’d been at since one PM (it was about 6:45PM) and venture to the Red Light district… and I am drunk…but it’s early… barely 7PM and most of the girls are at dinner I reckon cause the doorways were all draped.

But before I go on… You all know that prostitution is legal in Amsterdam right? I think the Red Light district deserves its own entry. Tune in…

Next: Lynne talks to a ho.
Tonight’s schedule: Lynne makes plans to go to Rotterdam with Niels the DJ to a House Dance club with he and another singer who is free- styling with the DJ. COOL!!