It is amazing that I have not spent a single of my Euros at 4.45pm in the 3rd day of my tour, except that i used up 2X 50 sens of my tour mates to visit heren tioletee.

Package tour was definitely not my cup of tea, if given a choice, i would not tour Europe in a package tour. 45 mins to tour an area, but 4-5 hrs dogging in a coach, buying souvenirs at designated area, lunches in Chinese restaurants in Europe, but nowhere to venture in between hours back in the hotels daily cos the hotels were situated in some weird remote area in the cities. BUT i am easy -going, so...and though i mus also admit that the breakfast provided is usually good, inviting and exciting.

Seeing wooden clogs brought back lot of memories that were once fictionally inscripted in the textbooks of my primary schools. It was quite difficult to imagine why people would want to wear hard wooden shoes to walk on streets then. But now everything seems so logical. Just like when i was young i was puzzled why the Japanese rice is sweet. 

I went up onto a real windmill today- i can suddenly feel the forces of nature. One can begin to realize how powerful wind energy can be, when he is so near to the rotating wings of a Windmill.

A rewarding thing while we were roaming in the streets of Amsterdam was that i realized that there were a lot of decent backpackers' inns for accommodation in the busiest streets of Amsterdam.      

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