Call Me Angie: Amsterdam Adventures

To kick start our second day in Amsterdam, we got up really early, 7am to be precise (way too early for my liking) and headed down for breakfast at 7.30am. I can honestly say, I have never seen a breakfast spread that was so amazing in my entire life! IT WAS INCREDIBLE! There was a cereal section, a bread section, a Tea and Coffee station, a fruit section, a pancake station, where they made them specially tailored to what you want, a juice station and a section just for hot food and that means the Dutch equivalent to a good old english fry-up ♥

After breakfast, we headed back to our hotel room to get ready for the day. We got up as early as we did because after yesterdays venture to the Anne Frank House and discovering the queue was miles long we decided it would be best to get there for when it opens at 9am So off we headed to the train station. Once we got to the Anne Frank house at 9.30am, there was still a queue but nowhere near as long as the day before. While waiting, a lady came round with a brochure of the museum and this was the prime opportunity for Chelsie to read up on Anne Frank, considering she thought she was married to Henry VIII (face palm moment). We were only waiting for half an hour and luckily it wasn't too cold.

Once inside, we made our way through the house which had a lot of steps! We weren't allowed to take any videos or photographs as this would have ruined the privacy of the museum and the story behind it. Walking through the house, was eerie in way as everyone was completely silent. The amount of respect that you could feel was unbelievable. The only sounds you could hear were the footsteps of people walking from room to room and a video playing in each room describing part of the Frank's story. The stories were told by either friends or colleagues of Otto Frank (her father) and the Frank family. The museum or house used to be the factory that Otto Frank owned and when the time came, the Frank family had to hide in an Annex above the factory and could hardly move throughout the day out of fear from being heard from a worker below them. The annex was hidden behind a bookcase and when you reach this room in the museum, you are told the bookcase is the original that was there when the Franks went into hiding in 1941. The Franks went into hiding with the Van Pels family and there was a total of eight people hiding in the Annex. When walking through the rooms, it is astonishing that so many people were hiding out in a space that was so small.

After leaving the Anne Frank house, we decided to continue our museum tour, but on a slightly different level. It was raining and we didn't have a clue where we were going, so we resulted to the trusty phone sat nav to find our way to the Red Light Secrets Museum. On route, myself and Chelsie very nearly got hit by a van and about three bikes but hey ho, its not a city experience until you've nearly been run over!

The museum is also known as the Museum of Prostitution, so it gives you a tour of what its like to be a prostitute in the Red Light District. It was a very odd experience for me and Chelsie because its 'the norm' in Amsterdam, whereas in the UK it is illegal. There was a room where you could see what its like to sit in a window, looking out on the street and it was hilarious!

I vlogged the day so you can go over and check out the tour of the museum by the link below. We then reached a wall of confessions. Now this was very interesting. It contained a lot of confessions (funnily enough) of people's experiences in either the Red Light District or just life in general. Some of them were terrible and some were just down right hilarious!

There was a photobooth where you could use props, like masks and feather boas, so of course we had to have a picture!

Once we left the museum, we had a little walk around before heading back. We stumbled across a drug museum. As in literally a museum about different drugs! We couldn't believe it. Something that is very common in Amsterdam, is many cafés aren't actually coffee cafés, but weed ones! The menu is a weed menu and you can choose which type you want. There are so many options! And you will be walking along the street and just get a huge waft of weed. Its just bizarre!

We then headed back to the hotel as it was absolutely chucking it down with rain. And we didn't really fancy walking around the rest of Amsterdam in the pouring rain :/

Once back in the warmth of our hotel room, we flicked the telly on and ordered pizza. It was lush! Then we had a nap and got ready to go back out to the Red Light District. We met two of Chelsie's friends and they walked with us as it could have been a little bit dodgy walking round by ourselves, plus the fact we didn't know where we were going! They gave us a tour of the district and told us stories about what they'd heard or had done themselves.

As we were walking along the street, they took us into a building saying its only 2 euros. So in we went, not having a clue what it was and it turned out to be a peep show! Myself and Chelsie were not expecting that! Its safe to say, we didn't stay for very long after that haha. The funny thing is, when editing the vlog, I had actually filmed the outside of the Peep show building and it had 'Live Sex Show' in electric neon letters. Apparently we missed that on the way in, I must have filmed it but not have been looking haha!

These lights represent all the windows around the Red Light District.

This is just the girls light, not the transgender lights, which have a purple light.

After strolling the streets of the Red Light District, we headed home and had a well deserved sleep after a busy day. The next morning it was an early start again, as our flight was at 9.30am. We headed down for the heavenly breakfast, then it was off to catch a train to the airport to take us home. Once we landed in Stansted, we had lovely little Costa Coffee while waiting for my mum to pick us up.