Discount travel blog

My trip to Amsterdam has exceeded my expectations. Its got an ambience of freedom and joy I couldn’t find in many other places yet.

The dutch are truely a smart bunch of people. Legallizing the soft drugs in order to fight the hard once. Creating a real win-win situation for everybody, and making lots of money aside. Prostituion has been fully ligalized sine 2000. I even joined a red light tour for 10 Euro, where they explain everything about it down to the detail, since the very first prostitut hudrets of years a go. I had the best time of my life there and stayed a night longer than I planned. The Amigo hostel is small but does the job of being cheap and close by the centre.

To plan our trip to Cologne was an easy task, although we didnt know until the last minute weather we actually would travel there or not. The plan was to see the finals of the European Football Cup in Germany, in case Germany would make it there. And surprisingly they did so 2 days before the finals we had to organize everything very quickly. The hostlel, transport and all without crossing our budget of just 200 Euros. So that means 100 Euro each person, for a weekend in Cologne inculding the car rental fee.

Despite the fact I felt a bit weird wearing that German hair, in the end it made the experience much more like I am part of this huge German fan club. Bearing in mind that I am originally from the US, that means a lot! And hey, Cologne is my number one German city, it simple turns you into that party mode.

Yeah, well after thinking the whole day where it would be best to watch the finals in Cologne, we considered one of the many sports bars or cafes down the road from Rudolfplatz, we finally decided to go the the huge “Koeln Arena” which has room for about 20.000 people, but there where at least another 10.000 outside in front of the Arena enjoying the view of the big screen and craziness that was happening amongst the mostly German fans.