We left Detroit around 6pm on Monday and about 7hrs later, arrived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands around 8:30am (local time). I noticed there were a lot of tall people on the plane. The guy who sat beside me was nearly 7ft tall (it seemed!) His legs were so long that he had to squeeze his knees into each side of the seat in front of him. I couldnt even put my tray table down because his leg was right under the hinge! Thankfully, I'm short so I don't really need all the room in front of me, plus I had an aisle seat.
We then took a train to Dordrecht where we checked into our hotel. The hotel was created in an old water treatment facility. There are beautiful gardens surrounding the hotel and the vegetables are served in the restaurant.
Today, Mom and I walked around for a few hours to look at the city center of Dordrecht. It seems that most people here travel by bicycle and we even saw one lady who was pedaling a bike with 5 kids on board (she had some type of contraption up front). I also saw a fishing store that sold fishing poles that were two stories tall. While on the street, I smelled chocolate coming from a store, so we went in and bought a small piece of milk chocolate with hazelnuts. They make the chocolate right there in the store and they use a chocolate fountain wheel-thingy to mix it.
In a restaurant's bathroom, I had my first experience with a self-cleaning toilet. After you flush, the toilet seat spins completely around as an electric squeegee thing washes it as it turns. I also found that many of the faucet handles are different than what I am used to so it takes me a few seconds to figure out how to turn them on...
The Dutch language sounds like complete jibberish to me. Most of the signs are written in Dutch, but some of the words resemble some similar English words. (automatic toilet= toilet automatisch). The government building is on a road called "steegoversloot."
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