interesting amasta-facts:
-every year when amsterdam drains its canals, they pull up about 20,000 bikes
-pot isnt actually legal; tolerance is just very high.
-nevertheless, less than 10% of the dutch actually use it.
-but they like it because the tourists boost that industry to a worth of €4 million.
-it costs €150 for a lady of the night to rent out a red light booth for 8 hours. a customer pays €50 for 15 minutes with her in that booth.
-that is a potential gross of €1450 a night.
-there are panic buttons in every booth-- if something untoward happens, the lady can depress the button and watch as her assaialt is beat to a pulp by the ladies from the nearby booths.
-second to show up is a security service, just to make it official. last to show up are the police.
-the EU is trying to put a bookend on the red-light district. shut down by 2015.
-the EU is composed of prudes.
"homesick? how can you be homesick?"
you obviously dont know what it is like to be from california!
i am walking many miles every day. i am getting a tan. i eat a lot of muesli. and investing in local specialties -- french fries or raw herring between two slices of bread, dangling my feet over the canal. i like getting lost. i like not knowing what exactly i am eating, or where exactly i am sleeping tomorrow night.
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