blonde hair and blue eyes

So I arrived in Stockholm early afternoon at around 2, and I am already in awe. I had no idea how much waterfront Stockholm had. Stockholm itself is actually a collection of islands and you can’t go 50 feet without seeing the coast. Even though Sweden is in the EU they don’t use the euro, they use the Kroner which is a task in its self. This city is VERY expensive, even moreso than London. An average meal will cost about 100-120 Kroners which Is about 10 euro to 12 euro. This has got to be the first country that has fit my stereotypes. You know everyone always says oh everyone has blonde hair and blue eyes, but for real they do. You can’t help but gawk at the people who are just pure as hell. Even the men, you get caught looking at them and are like, what the hell do they feed their kids. Not to mention that everyone dresses extremely trendy. And by that I don’t mean your typical euro trends which by American standards are laughable, they dress well. Friday when I arrived I spent most of the day getting my berrings and actually getting some rest, as I was exhausted. The hostel was gorgeous, everything was ikea ironicly and the staff was awesome. One thing that really throws you off is the English speaking skills of the general population. They just did a survey in the past 2 years which came to the conclusion that 89% of the population speaks English, with that last 11 percent being people born before WW2. With that being said, EVERYTHING is still written in Swedish which is really intimidating because it looks NOTHING like English. That night I met a kid from Jakarta Indonesia and we shared a common interest of Nike shoes so we had a long chat and went out for the night wandering around and exploring the town. When I got back I met a kid from Iowa State who was traveling alone as well and we decided we would wake up the next morning early to take a boat cruise, which by the way Sweden is home of the largest archipelago in the world boasting nearly 20,000 islands.

I woke up Saturday morning EARLY, about 7:30 and my friend and I hopped on the subway to the marina to grab a ship to the islands. We checked the itineraries and decided on taking a cruise to one of the larger islands known as Voxholm. The cruise was about an hour and the sceneray was beautiful. It actually really reminded me of northern Michigan. While on the boat I met a lady from Grand Rapids who was in her 40’s and had been traveling by herself for about 2 and a half monthes and we exchanged stories and both agreed how creepily similar Sweden’s landscapes were to northern Michigan. Upon arriving my buddy and I headed to a café that was on an isolated point to grab a coffee and a light snack. The weather was gorgeous and we got lucky because according to the weather forecasts, it was supposed to rain all weekend. We just walked around the island for a couple of hours and explored the landscapes. This would be the absolute perfect place to go camping and if I return to Sweden that is exactly what I will be doing. After hopping back on the hour long cruise through the Swedish archipelago we decided to cruise through Gamla Stan, which in Swedish means “old town”. The old quarter is small yet beautiful. It really reminded me of the streets of Pamplona with its shades of yellow, orange, and red filling the small nooks and narrow streets. After a very long day of walking we headed back to the hostel to rest up. I had planned on going out that night but I met a bunch of girls from germany and decided to just grab some beers from the store and kick it at the hostel, WHICH REMINDS ME BY STORE I MEAN 7-11 WHICH WAS THE FIRST 7-11 IVE BEEN TO IN EUROPE!!!!!! But don’t get too excited, it was shwags, no slurpees and they don’t even stay open 24 hours, so what the fuck? But none the less it was good to be in a 7-11 again which is basically my headquarters back in east lansing.

The next day I got to sleep in and decided to do some exploring on my own. I intended to head to the famous Vasa museum. The Vasa museum is an exhibition on a Swedish warship from the late 17^th century which is completely and perfectly preserved from sinking 30 minutes into its maiden voyage. The exhibition was spectacular, definitely the coolest museum ive ever been to besides the guggenhiem in Bilbao. The ship is MASSIVE, a few hundred feet long, ive never seen anything like it in my life. I took a guided tour which was very informative and spent about an hour after that just reading the different exhibitions around the 5 floors of the museum. The weather was still gorgeous so after that I headed to the open air museum known as Skansen. This place was huge, filled with gardens everywhere and was high up on a hill with awesome vistas of the city skyline. It also included a zoo with scandnavian animals including lynx, wolf, moose, wolverines, and walruses?? It was really cool to see a wolverine outside of Ann Arbor as I have never seen a true wolverine in person. After all was said and done I headed back to the hostel to hang out until my flight later that night. Tomorrow we are headed to Edinburgh Scotland which I have heard nothing but great things about. Cheers!

New York City!! errrr Old York

ok ok ok so im sorryfor the delay, ive just been doing a lot of traveling and havent really had a lot of time to sit down and write this stuff but here goes nothin.....

So this aint New York, its Old York, and I love this city. We arrived after a four hour or so bus ride into the English countryside. The city is a lot bigger than I imagined, and is still surrounded by the roman walls, yes the roman walls its that old. York used to be the site of a major roman military installation and the evidence of this is abundant everywhere. The first night that we got there we spent at a local brewery pub that would turn out to basically be our hangout for the rest of the visit. They had about four brews brewed locally and york and they were all amazing. In particular, was a dark creamy beer called Centurion’s Ghost that I doubt I will ever be able to find in the states but who knows, its won a lot of awards so maybe I can find it at some import specialty store. After an early night we headed back to campus, which is beautiful. The whole campus is surrounding a big lake and a majority of the buildings are on water front. It was like going to school on a nature reserve. The next day we had a walking tour of the city. I really enjoyed it was the town was rich in history and the guy knew is stuff. We got to walk along the city walls and then headed into York Minster. The York Minster was HUGE and it too had a ton of history behind it and I really enjoyed the tour. That day we also went to a WW2 museum, which was inside of a former German POW camp from WW2. the museum was huge and I absolutely loved it,. Before then I had never been into a entire museum of just ww2 exhibitions and I was completely engrossed by every single room. That night was a night to remember. We headed back to the same pub as the night before, only this time our professors Jim and Chris were with us. Our professor Chris proceeded to get super wasted and was the drunkest person in England that night. Screaming at the band up front, dancing around the pub, and generally just being hilarious. After that we got some kebabs at our new favorite eating vender, Amigos. Let me tell you how hot this chili sauce was, I was crawling on the ground through the streets of York begging for milk to calm my mouth down, it was hands down the hottest food I had ever eaten in my life.

That next morning we headed to fountains abbey which was a lot cooler than I expected. It was this giant gardens with an enormous ruined abbey in it. The gardens were beautiful and we spent the next 4 hours exploring underground tunnels, climbing rocks, and wandering through the lush green gardens. The weather was great so we were lucky to go to the abbey that day. After that we hopped in the bus for the 4 hour ride home. All in all I loved york, as you know I like London, but I don’t love it. Its too modern and overwhelming but york, very relaxing and I loved the small town feeling. This weekend I am headed to Stockholm Sweden and am super excited. I am going to find out for myself if all the beautiful people really live up to the hype.

tour de belgium

Where do I start about this wonderful country. I arrived in Brussels early on Friday morning but I was unable to check in till about 4pm that day. So I dropped my backpack off at my hostel and hit the ground running. I first headed to the nearest waffle stand to see what these Belgian waffles were all about. Yes they are amazing. Which reminds me that the national sport of Belgium is eating, you heard me right, eating, but I will get into that in a little bit (sorry that’s a lot of commas in one sentence). After my delicious waffle I headed over to the Atomium which is this GIANT replica of a model of an atom. You can go to the top and get a birds eye view of the city which was pretty cool. After that I headed to one of the most famous cafes in Brussels, Mort Subite. They brew a beer there called Mort Subite which translated means sudden death and is only brewed for that single cafe. The beer was incredible, the Belgians really know their shit. Belgium produces the most kinds of beer in the world, something like 700 beers and the possibilities are endless. Belgium is particularly known for its Trappist beers which are brewed by secluded Trappist monks to fund their monasteries and no one is allowed inside. These beers pack a punch, 9.5% alcohol, a far cry from the watered down bullshit 3.5% we have back at home. The architecture in Belgium is amazing and is known as Art Noveu. I believe that it is unique to Belgium and you cant help but gawk at the endless spires and gothic looking towers that fill the city. I headed to the main Grokt Square where there happened to be a concert going on which was fun, I went into all the various chocolate shops and sampled oodles of chocolates from the undisputed chocolate champions of the world. I spent the rest of the day sampling the various foods, actually just waffles and French fries. Which is another thing Belgium prides itself is its French fries. Belgium must be the about the 4^th country that claims to have the best fries or claims to have created them but let me tell you this, the Belgians win. Its not even a contest, the fries are far superior and you can get like 30 sauces at the fry stands. Brussels most famous monument is pretty ridiculous. Its called Mannekin Pis and it is a small statue fountain of a little boy pissing into a basin. There were all these people there taking pictures of it and I was so confused as how this statue could be the pride of Brussels. I guess it shows the spirit and free spirit of the city. For dinner I had some mussels which were fantastic and I met some Australians at my hostel and we went out for the evening which was a good time because I love meeting random people and getting their travel stories and sharing mine.

Bruges, where do I start? What a beautiful city. I cant put enough words on this page to explain how much I loved this city because part of my love was just being there in the city. Bruges is a small medieval city with canals running through it and is known as “The Venice of the North. Of course I started the day with more waffles and fries and was just in awe of the beauty of the city, pictures cant even capture the romantic cobblestone streets and towering cathedrals that fill this city, I was in love. I headed to the belfry in the city which had to have been something like 800 stairs, more than the St Pauls cathedral in London, once again the view was breathtaking. Later that day I took a brewery tour which was one of the highlights of my trip in Europe as whole. I learned so much, not even just about the process of brewing beer, but the actual history of Europe and how closely tied it is with beer. The beer itself, Bruge Zot, has been my favorite beer ive tried yet in Europe and is the best beer ive ever had in all the world, I really hope I can find a small shop back in the states that carries it because it is incredible. I really don’t have a lot more to say about Bruges which is weird because I loved it so much, but you have to understand that it was all about being there, there is nothing I can write on this page that can explain to you how I felt when I was in that city.

After all was said and done I hopped on a train to Ghent to see what that was all about. Another awesome city. This too was a canal city just not as romantic as Bruges but still very cool none the less. There were 2 or 3 castles inside the city and it was littered with Art Noveu clock towers and cathedral belfries everywhere. There was this stag party there and as I was walking by this guy was so drunk he fell in the canal off of a boat. He was swimming around trying to grab this inflatable raft and let me tell you, a canal anywhere is the last place you want to be swimming in, they are so dirty, but it was funny nonetheless. That night I had a steak dinner, and I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was the first actual steak that ive had since coming to Europe. When I get home I am going to go on a steak binge and see how many filet mignons I can eat in a week. I got back late on Saturday with the intention of just going straight to bed but as always my plans changed on the fly. I met this couple from Arizona State University who were going out to this café called Delirium which holds the Guinness book of world records record for most beers served in an establishment, something like 2025 beers. We had a lot of fun and got back at around 2am and I headed to bed.

That next morning I decided to go to Antwerp. So I hopped on the train and 45 minutes later I was there in the so called “city of diamonds”. As soon as I hopped off the train I decided it would be fun to rent a bike so I did just that and there I was 20 minutes later with a bike. I cruised the city a bit and had a blast, I definitely plan on renting a bike again in the other cities I go to, I would really like to rent a bike and ride into the Irish country side and visit some small villages and such, see if I can find some Doyle’s creeping around J. Once again Antwerp was filled with Art Noveu architecture everywhere, including a small castle right on the river. I took my bike and rode deep into the country, probably about 3 or 4 miles into the fields. I was all by myself and it was such a liberating feeling to know that I was lost in the forest of some random country in northern Europe and I could do whatever I wanted. I took some time just to stop and sit down on the shore of the river and just admire the city skyline, it was such a cool experience. After about 4 or 5 hours of riding my bike I headed back to the train station and hopped back on the train to Brussels, as I had a Eurostar to catch that night back to London. I ran into a little obstacle, as I fell asleep on the train and missed my stop by 4 stops and ended up over an hour outside of Brussels. This scared the shit out of me considering if I missed my train I would not only be out 100 USD for my ticket, but I had a bus to catch early that next morning to York. I ended up making my train by nearly 15 minutes and that was with me sprinting through the city and zooming in a taxi instead of taking the tram. So everything ended up ok.

All in all I had an incredible trip. Ive never felt the way I felt when I stepped off that train into Brussels. I thought to myself, holy shit your in a foreign country, they don’t speak English here, and you don’t know anyone. It was a very scary feeling, but a good scary, it made me feel alive. I was absolutely elated to be able to wander around Belgium with not a care in the world and do whatever I wanted to do, and I did just that. The only thing that sucked about being alone was eating dinner by myself, because come on who wants to do that. But other than that, I had no problem meeting people and I really learned a lot about myself this weekend. I cant tell you how much more confident I am in myself after doing what I did. Next weekend I am headed to Stockholm and I am super excited to see the country that people say has the most beautiful people in the world. I am once again excited to be on my own and do my own thing, and I am definitely going to rent a bike and try and ride around the city and hopefully the surrounding areas as well. We are headed to York right now for 3 days which is a medieval city in the north of England and im actually very excited for it. Any chance to get out of London is good for me because I like the feeling of being back in time in some ancient city. I am not sure if ill have internet but hopfully the university of york will have some sort of place where I can get internet access, if not that then at a coffee shop somewhere in town. Cheers mates!

london london london

Ahhhh London London London, how I love you so much and hate you so much. Times are tough living in the most expensive city in the world. Its starting to get me depressed but I am holding strong. I have started to accept the fact that no you will not find a meal for under 18 USD and no you will not find a beer for under 5 USD. Now im kinda writing this a week late so the chronology of this isn’t going to be exact but don’t worry ill get to everything. We took a cruise down the Thames river to the city of Greenwich, which is not pronounced like sandwich but without the W. We headed to Greenwich to see the national maritime museum and to see the royal observatory and prime meridian. For all you highschool drop outs out there the prime meridian is the imaginary line that splits the eastern and western hemisphere and is the basis for all time keeping and navigating in the world. The prime meridian was, well, lets just say it was the prime meridian and nothing more. But it was very cool to say I straddled the globe J. The national maritime museum was actually very interesting. Papa if your reading this, and I hope you are, it was actually very informative. They had an entire exhibit on the Battle of Trafalgar with some absolutely incredible displays of personal items of Admiral Nelson. They even had the actual clothes Admiral Nelson wore when he was shot and killed in the historic battle. They also had a great collection of scale models from ships dating centuries back to modern cruise ships, including a 1 billion dollar project that is set to create the worlds largest cruise ship. I also had a chance to operate a state of the art shipping simulator where I proceeded to crash my frigate into the coast of Australia. We stopped in a few pubs that were wonderful as always.

That week we also went to our fist night club which I wish we could do more because I love the night clubs here, people are there to dance and have fun, not creep on girls and get blacked out and puke everywhere. We went to England’s number one club known as fabric. This thing was so far underground it wasn’t even funny. Every time I came out of the bathroom I was in a different room, the music was earthshaking and the club held something like 2500 people. It was an awesome time we ended up staying out till around 4am. Oh yea we went to the National British Museum of history as well which was pretty sweet. As ive said before, I cant stand classical art so it was such a nice change of pace to visit a history museum instead of an art gallery. One of the museum’s claims to fame is that they have the Rosetta stone, yes THE Rosetta stone. Which isn’t as cool as it sounds, as its exactly what it sounds like, a big stone. What really interested me was the great exhibitions on Viking artifacts found as well as about 4 or 5 mummies on display which was sooooo cool. And to top it off was the Parthenon exhibit which is a giant room of marble that is al from the Parthenon, the Greek government is actually in the process of trying to retrieve these pieces as they are a SIGNIFICANT part of the Parthenon. And we saw another play, this time a musical. Im sure you’ve all heard of it, Les Miserables. Let me tell you that I was pretty fuckin Le Miserable. I thought they actually spoke a little bit in musicals, but not in this one, they sang the whole time, I thought my brain was going to explode. But the one thing I have to give them credit for was the production and singing. The production was incredible, I have to give mad props to the behind the scenes crew. The actors were also very good as well, all of their singing voices were superb. But like I said before, they sang the whole time and I thought I was going insane.

We had a overnight trip to Bath as well, including Stonehenge as well. Funny story, apparently I had already been to Stonehenge in 7^th grade but somehow I don’t even remember it one bit?? My mom said I was jetlagged but still, that is a pretty big item not to remember in the least bit. Now I had been to bath before as well but I didn’t realize we stayed there for 3 days in an apartment, I thought we just came for the baths as that was all that I remembered. According to the BBC that day we went to Stonehenge and bath was one of the rainiest days in England’s history, yay for us. We hit up the roman baths which was also really cool even for a second time. It is absolutely mind blowing what the romans did in such of a primitive time. Bath was actually a really cool city, its too bad it was raining all day because everything is done up in roman style architecture and for the first time in England it felt like I was in Europe again. A funny side story, we were at the oldest pub in the town and it was actually very nice, good menu, families eating all around us. I proceeded to enter the bathroom and on the wall I saw a vending machine. Now I figured oh it must be your typical bathroom vending machine, condoms and whatever. No, not this one. This vending machine had: A dildo, an inflatable sheep (use your imagination), and Viagra. Now this seemed very out of place for me in such a small conservative town especially in a pub like this so I had to snap some pics. I came out and told my friends and they both ran in there to see it as well. We decided at that very moment that we had to have a sheep, so we each pooled together 2 pounds for the grand total of 6 pounds and marched into the bathroom for our new toy. Now get your heads out of the gutter, we only wanted this for photo purposes and joking around, the prank ideas were endless. We marched into the mens room and put our money in but to our dismay the machine ate our money. This was not acceptable, so I went to the bar and explained to the bartender that I had put my money in the machine for an inflatable sheep and that it had ate my money. The dude was really creeped out and explained that he is not in control of the machine that the company runs it, teary eyed I retreated back to my table. Later that night we actually came back to the same pub for dinner and the bartender from early was our waiter. When he brought our food out I asked him in a very serious tone, if he had happened to fix the sheep machine. He got really awkward and hastily gave us our food and our waiter switched for the remainder of the night, he was genuinely creeped out that we were trying to have sex with an inflatable animal. After that we had a guys night out with just the boys and it was a good time. We posted up at a pub below a hostel and I met this magician street performer from Texas. This guy blew my mind with tricks. And no it wasn’t because I was drinking, as I met him before I even started. Not only was this guy an incredible magician but he was also extremely educated as well. He could chat about a wide variety of subjects, from quantum physics to early 15^th century Victorian history. We woke up early that next morning to go to a fashion/costume museum in bath which was a huge waste of time as we stayed overnight in Bath for a 25 minute walkthrough of a bunch of clothes, I did get to try on a corset though.

That is all I can think of for now, but this weekend I am doing my first solo trip of the summer, I am going to be touring Belgium. The plan is Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp. I am very anxious to be doing this traveling by myself because it really shows what you are made of when you get dropped into a foreign country all on your lonesome. Lets hope I don’t die or anything nasty like that.

some videos to share

sorry the video quality sucks guys, blogspot has shitty uploading i guess

1am in paris, we didnt even know this was coming so it was a pleasent surprise

hangin out watching the tennis matches at wimbledon

bullfighting in sevilla

walking the coast in monaco

wimbledon wimbledon wimbledon

so london is starting to grow on me. i was kinda turned off at first because its such a modern city and its absolutely massive and the exchange rate is just down right depressing. but im loving it more and more everyday. the people are so friendly, everyone speaks english, and i love the pub food and english beers. i got the opportunity of a life time on friday to go to wimbledon. it was cheap to get in and we were able to watch any of the matches courtside except the big ones. for the big ones they had this HUGE hill with a GIANT tv and an insane speaker system for over a thousand people to watch on. the experience was surreal. i am a huge tennis fan and to be able to go to something like this was out if this world. the place was huge, like its own city. restaurants, bars, everything something like 30 courts. it was my first chance to see a grass court in person and i am in love. i bought a t shirt and i think i might go back on sunday for the finals just to watch them again, as it was only 15pounds to get in. we went to a play at the globe, which is the famous theater that shakespeare performed at and the play was super lame. the globe was awesome but the play itself sucked considering we had to stand up for 2 and a half hours in the yard and listen to people speak in accent so bad i couldnt even understand them. today was saturday and we took to the city. we went to westminster abbey, big ben, parliament, and cruised the thames river. the thames is really cool, such a relaxing place its really what london is all about. we went inside this cathedral called st pauls and it was awesome. you had to climb over 500 steps to get to the top and the view was awe inspiring. other than that things are good, we are planning on going to fabric tonight which is supposed to be the best night club in london and it stays open till 8am, so that should be fun. anyways ill update this thing again soon, we are doing a river cruise on monday of the thames, and heading to york and bath on wednesday to visit stonehenge and the roman bathes. cheers mates

dude give me back the euro

arrived safe and sound in london. we couldnt take a train because all of the eurrail pass slots were used up because apparently everyone and their brother has school on this monday and i would have had to book weeks ago. we are in central london staying in the dorms. there are nearly 400 msu students staying in london right now and i love it. i have met probably 50 msu kids from different programs and its nice to have such a wide variety of people to talk to. not to mention the internet is blazing fast and we all have our own rooms, the accommodations are fucking awesome. this city is just a sea of pubs, one or two on every corner. ive made it a point to try all of the english dishes and i have to say i havent been disappointed yet. bangers and mash is probably my favorite but i really liked the sheppards pie too and you cant forget fish and chips of course. god the exchange rate sucks here, i dont even know what to do. it is literally more than double the us dollar. we went to the national portrait gallery which was super lame, and then we went to the national gallery which was not as lame, but still super lame. umm the classes are sweet, the professors are super chill and its mostly about the history of crime. all weve been talking about is various forms of execution and famous criminals in british history. we did a jack the ripper tour which was really cool, i got to lay on the ground in the EXACT spot where one of the murders took place. we did a walking tour as well of london, and i really enjoyed it the tour guide was a funny dude and he knew his shit, i really enjoyed listening to him. this is probably the first city ive been to that really doenst feel like a european city, its way too modern for my tastes and it feels pretty overwhelming. im sure itll grow on me, but right now im kind of indifferent to london, ive been here before but this time it just feels too big for me. im a simple guy you know? but have no fear, im sure its just the shock of getting here and ill get used to it, london is supposed to be one of the power metropolises of the world and im not gunna let that get me down. oh yea and the beer is AWESOME. ive made it a point to try and get a new beer everywhere i go, but its turning out to be impossible. this is because every pub has a range of 10 new beers and i feel like i cant possibly try all 3million beers this country has to offer. im still up in the air about what im doing this weekend, i really want to go to belgium, but the hostels i want to stay in are all booked up. i am a firm believer that the amount of fun you have in a place is dependent on the hostel you stay at, especially if your traveling alone. so well see what happens, im gunna try and round up a few people to go somewhere, maybe luxumburg?? but once again i have to reiterate how awesome it is to be living in the dorms, it is just such a nice change of pace. we are going to a musical right now (super weak) but who knows maybe ill like it. oh yea and my independent study for this program i got to pick the topic. i am doing a paper on the most haunted locations in england and i plan on visiting them giving the history and my opinion on each location. ill update this boy soon enough, peep facebook all the pictures are up to date now. and mom and dad i hope your having fun in florida, i miss you guys like crazy and i cant thank you enough for everything youve given me the opportunity to do. cheers mates


oh yea and i went to harrods the other day and tried on some super cool euro clothes. here is a picture of me wearing about $2500 USD in D&G gear. and yes those pants are covered in metal studs.

PSSSSST......

so here we are in amsterdam. word on the street is amsterdam is famous for its delicious and potent coffee so alex and i decided it would be fun to cruise the canals of amsterdam sampling the various coffees at the various coffee shops around town. Let me first start out by saying, this place is run by crack heads. Everyone looks so cracked out at all hours of the day it is outrageous. not to mention the fact that every person who isnt a tourist there is a drug dealer trying to sell you something shady. I couldnt even keep a straight face walking down the alleys and canals of the red light distrcit without some north african guy whispering PSSSST charlie X in my ear and i would literally burst out laughing because it was the 6th time in 5 minutes that some sketchball tried to approach me. Our hostel was a piece. There was no common area and the place was dirty as hell. The only thing it had going for it was the fact that it literally was IN the red light district. but this came with its downsides, you couldnt sleep. there are people running around screaming till 7 in the morning. the hookers are hillarious. you walk down these narrow alleys lind with windows and it will be all dudes. you get some really wierd vibes in there too, mad sexual tension, and everyone acts like they didnt mean to be there or they took a wrong turn, but everyone knows they are just there to look at the hookers in the windows. umm there really isnt much to do there besides visit the various coffee shops and sample their coffee. the hieneken brewery tour was closed for renovation, the ann frank house had a line a mile long, and the canal tour sucked. but the coffee was really really really really really good. We spent most of the time just walking from coffee shop to coffeeshop just hangin out havin a coffee etc etc. Overall amsterdam was pretty fun, a bit overwhelming, but it was fun. on to london now. cheers!

p.s. talk to me in person and ask me about the real amsterdam :)