City of Sin!

Since the July 2009 incident, where I was career assasinated and lost my 30k plus scholarship, i have lost my enthusiasm to continue my blogging life. I blogged lesser and lesser.Although it was the past, but i can't completely letting go the scar.

Forget about the past, let me continue with my blog.This time I am gonna share with you my Tour de Europe. Let me start with the City of Sin - Amsterdam. You can experience all sort of illegal stuff here legally!

Basically i love this city, not because of the prostitution or weed, but the people here. People here was basically friendly and nice. Generally people here speak Dutch, but everyone able to speak English fluently. A small city, where you can cover most of the places by foot. For the windmill, you need to go a little bit further away from the city centre.Some website said that bicycle is the best way to travel in this city.

Basically there will be few places you must go!


1) The wind mill - is the symbol of Dutch. Get an air from hectic city life with greenery. Remember to try the homemade ice cream.

2) I amsterdam - for me this is a nice spot to prove that you are in amsterdam.

3) Red light district - along the river you can see a lot of swams and ducks. Night time is the best, when all the prostitutes wearing glow-in-the-dark undies. and unique lighting everywhere.

4) Flower market- will be best time during Spring

5) Madame Tussauds - A worth going wax museum. Meet your Idol there.

6) Flower Park(Keukenhof) - This place only avaliable during Spring. Located far away from city. Very colourful and fantastic park!

7) Museums- There are few popular museum. Van Gough,Rijksmuseum, and Anne Frank House. I personally found that nothing special in those museums plus the entrance fees are quite high. Maybe because i don't know how to enjoy all the displayed drawing and not camera allowed in those museum. If you want something special, then you can go for sex museum or ertic museum.


There are few thing you should do in Amsterdam.

1) Try Holland french fries. Is famous here.

2) Take a cruise along the canal. You can see all the interesting places a long the canal.

3)If you are daring enough, you can try the weed from the weed shop.

4) If you are curious enough, then you should watch the live porn show.
5) Hop into a Chinese Restaurant at the Chinatown, a street next to red light. You will love the food there.

4 months later(how to travel around the city)!

I wanted to update my blog from time to time but sometime it can't be helped. Sorry that i have abandoned my blog for 4 months and someone can and drop a comment "when are u gonna update mervin chew ???" and i realized that i still have reader who is waiting for my update.

First of all i would like to briefly explain "how to travel around the city" in Europe. There are a lot of website available for you to get information.

I would like to recommend you 2 websites.
1. about.com
2.wikitravel.org

Just type your desired destination and you will get all the information you need. about.com website will tell you the top attraction spot that you can't afford to miss out. Wikitravel will tell you the overview of the city, transportation rate/history/background....

If you need more detail information, you can buy the lonely planet book. This will be a nice book for travelling.

Another thing will be the public transport. Do check the type of public transportation available in the city you intended to go. Most cities, have tram, metro(underground), bus and even bicycle. Most of the cities come with package or promotion. For example in Germany, you can get a single daily ticket about 25 euro but you just need to pay 35 euro if you buy group ticket for 5 people. In Rome, the have Rome pass where you can travel for 3 days and few museums. Some even offer great discount during weekend. If you are student below 26 and you travel during weekend you can get offer price as much as 50%. Do check out for the transportation map.

You can also check the size of the city. Some city is relatively small. Example Brussels and Amsterdam are the small cities. Most of the interesting spots are located at the heart of the city and you can reach it by walking distance.

ok! i will be enough for this section! will update again later.