We've been here before, we hit the sights we wanted to. Amsterdam is a cool place, but I've been surprised at how many people who recently arrived here are asking us questions looking things to do. The conclusion I draw here is that Amsterdam is a great place to hang out. There are countless young, aimless-looking sorts everywhere, but there isn't that much to actually do. I mean, unless you include drinking or smoking, only one of which I'm doing and neither of which actually constitutes an activity (though some frequenting the Coffee Shops may disagree).
So we fell back on the old standby, shopping. We'd exhausted the local streets, so we headed for another area, which was very nice. We didn't buy anything. except cheese and some apple cake, but it was still pleasant.
Back to the hotel for a nap and then out to dinner. I wanted something slightly more upscale this go round, so we went to a nice restaurant not too far from here. The food was fine, but overall it's hard not to draw the conclusion that this isn't a foodie destination. You don't see a lot of Dutch restaurants elsewhere.
Regardless, it was a perfectly nice dinner. When we got back, I had kind of an anxiety thing where I'd been sitting around too much and had to go out for a walk. This happens to me occasionally; I'm not very good at sitting still for a long time, and though we'd been out and about some, I needed to move.
So I went out for a walk. At 11:00 at night. Fortunately, this is a good town to do that kind of thing in. It's very very safe, and as I said to Ronnie, I was more afraid of being run over by a bike or scooter than of being mugged, for example. The streets were very busy and active, though I was probably the oldest person still out there.
Stopped paying attention at one point, which is a bad idea here, and ended up walking much further than I wanted to, but it was beautiful out and not in any way bad.
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