of black and red

right now i'm kinda hyped up with the idea of traveling alone.
heck, i think being separated in edinburgh might be one of the best happened.
just wandering, have no care, no one to restrict my movement (or lack of it), not being bound to a specific time limit.
group traveling is just like walking with tour guide, except you're following someone familiar rather than some stranger.
and they say we have a week of easter break in april.
HAVE to do SOMETHING about it.
now to look for places for backpacking supplies.
and if only the plannings and paperwork (visa, bookings, stuffs like that) were much easier to do.


amsterdam was great. but with only like, 5 hours out of  the supposed 9 hours available, things have to be rushed. fuck the phone for muffling things up. instead of CENTRAAL, i went to KESTEREN.
that was like 2 hours away. going back chipped out another 2 hours.
but it went nicely.
netherland's countryside was beautiful. it doesn't have the rolling hills and plains of scotland.
things were much flatter here. and that just makes distance hard to perceive and shit looks HUGE.
it was still foggy even at 2pm.
lucky i was in a safe steel enclosure that is the train.
i don't know what makes the trees there grow tall and at the same height!
it was like, they hire planes with chainsaws attached to the wings pruning the trees every week.
the distance between trees looks almost the same.
the OCD was strong in whoever plant those trees.

wait did i mention about being in a safe enclosure?
yep. the trees look like giant legs in all that fog.
not even in amsterdam and i'm already trippin.

kesteren was like somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
there were like, 2 other people walked out of the train and then they left me there,
confused.
shit got serious when i realize their ticket machines don't accept notes.
how the hell am i going to get 14 pieces coins????
now remember those 2 other people, they were not even local there.
now, i don't know what language they speak there (dutch?) but thank god to whoever that makes them know english.
people i've met were really nice. they've put up with weird shit i did there without any rude remarks, some even offer help with sweet encouragements.
heck i was spoiled back there.
though it seems that they are not as nice with people with a strong, your typical mid-eastern muslim impression.
and amsterdam's courtesy seems to deteriorate over time.

that, brings me to drunkards i've stumbled while strolling the streets at night.
drunk people are rude and drunk strangers, are unpredictable.
(i'll go back later with drunk people)

and the red light district!
haha!
i'll continue later as i need to check out. chiao dia-chan.