Journal of a Wanderer – Day 7

We began the day on an artistic note. We looked up Lonely Planet and felt it would be grossly unfair if we didn’t visit a couple of museums. We started by visiting the Van Gogh Museum. We sat through his film and walked through the aisles looking at paintings that have attained cult status. While we were not able to comprehend the extent of Van Gogh’s pain, we definitely realized that we didn’t want to inflict anymore pain on ourselves.

The next few museums were struck off the ‘to do’ list and we settled for a large pitcher of chilled Heineken beer at Leidseplein.

A couple of days here and I realized both Christianity as a religion and Amsterdam as a city make a very liberal combination. The famous red light area is between 2 churches. Can you imagine a theka that is 100 metres away from a temple? Infact the most popular night club – Paradiso is a converted church.

Before I get all philosophical about the state of the church…or is state and church...forget it, back to some liberal options - chilled beer and doner kababs.