I love Cologne, I love Amsterdam!

Another post on my ex-trip!!!
Well, this time round, we had a breakaway to Amsterdam! Via cologne, Germany! 
Cologne, Germany
We flew in at 6am to cologne airport!!! It was damn bloody early! >.< Luckily, our dear Jackie prepared sushi from home and we had a wonderful sushi breakfast at the central train station before we started our one day trip in cologne!
Maybe we were too tired from lack of sleep (we slept in the Kiev, Ukraine airport the night before and took a 4am flight to cologne), we were basically walking around like zombies, but still we keep the tourist spirit high!!! :D
This is the famous Dom just right outside the central train station.


When you are in Germany, you can never miss sausages! And surprisingly KFC sells hotdogs too at only 1€!!! What are we still waiting for?!?!?! Grab it! Yummy~ ^.^

We even took some “visit cologne 2009” pictures for the tourism poster!!! >.<

After half a day, we were too tired to continue walking and we came out with a brilliant idea, since we had a day pass, we simply hopped onto a bus and let the bus carried us to the last station, and returned to the first station again. We had a good rest and sleep on the way!!! Kekeke…
We caught an evening train to Amsterdam and reached there at midnight. Fortunately, our very nice host we found on couchsurfing were there to welcome us!!! :D and even kind enough to offer us an empty apartment to stay! Yeah! We called it a day and knocked out once we were at the apartment! Finally, some sleep!

Amsterdam, Netherland.
We started the day GREAT by visiting the SEX museum!!! Yeehaaa~
It was an eye-opening experience especially at the animal sex section!!! 0_0

During noon time, we have Oskar to join us from Gothenburg, Sweden!!! (we met during my previous trip there.)
We travelled some distance out of city to the windmills!!! The weather started to turn slightly bad, with drizzles, yet we were enthusiastic!!! >.<
We visited the clog factory first! The clogs inside were so beautiful!!!and so colourful!!!


Each of us bought one pair!!! >.< (yeah right…haha)

Then we dropped by a wooden handicraft shop…actually main purpose is more like to stay away from the chilly and drizzle out there…>.<

Let’s have some snap shots with the magnificent windmills despite the bad weather.
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We were sort of hungry, and what can be better than to visit the cheese factory!!! Yummy!!! Lots of different cheese inside for us to try, I love most except those with goat milk, too pungent taste : P (I love mutton but those are too strong for me).

More windmills!!! :D


Another highlight of the day, we got to meet a friend of my mom who had been staying in Amsterdam for years!!! Aunt Lin and her bf, Uncle Tony were so hospitable and treated us a feast at this HK restaurant, finger-licking good food! I still miss the prawn dumplings :P

They even volunteered as temporary tour guide and showed us around the red light district!!! How cool it was!!! :D They were travel angels to us indeed! Next time when I visit Amsterdam again, I am offered a place to stay at Aunt Lin’s!!! yeah~ Once again, thanks so much Aunt Lin and Uncle Tony, hope to see you around soon!!!

Another cool thing was I got to meet Joanne, my asean scholar friend back in Singapore, right in Amsterdam itself! She happened to fly in from Budapest (from Singapore at first) after attending a conference there to meet her friend from Greece. We hanged out for an hour or two, caught up with each other, had some real good time!  Pity that we didn’t bring our camera along!
Zzzz…
The very next day, we made a tour to the Heineken factory!
We got 2 free beers inside and got an insight of how actually the beer was brewed from barley.



Let's brew the beer!!!

Overall, it was an interesting and fun exploring journey!

We also visited the big slogan of “I Amsterdam” and also walked past the Ann’s House. We walked past the Dam square numerous times.
We smoked marijuana too!!! We took magic mushroom too!!! Aaaahhhh~
Near evening time, we took a train back to Cologne where I spent my birthday eve there!!! Yeah!
I went pub crawl the whole night! Awesome experience!!!
Then, very early next morning at 5am we had to travel to Dortmund and fly back to Kiev, Ukraine. Needless to say, I was totally wasted on the journey home but it was all worth it >.<
I LOVE Cologne, I LOVE Amsterdam! Hehe~