Europe

Back in September 2008 when I was based in Aachen (Germany), I had a colleague who was transiting at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport towards KL after spending the last 3 months in Nigeria.

Coincidentally, there was also an ex-colleague who was working in Bonn (Germany),  about 1.5 hours train ride away from Aachen.

3 of us were colleagues together in our previous company in which we really had a good time together.

So the person who was transiting in Amsterdam said he will be staying over there for a night and suggested that we meet up there for the weekend. After all, it has been quite sometime since we all sat down together after leaving our previous company.

To me, Amsterdam wasn’t that far away from Aachen. It was an hour bus ride from Aachen to Heerlen, a small town near the Dutch-German border. From there onwards, it’s 3 hours train ride towards Amsterdam for me.

My friend in Bonn however, took the expensive, but fast route. He took a ICE (intercity express aka bullet train) directly from Bonn to Koln and straight to Amsterdam. That journey would take 2.5 hours and costs more than 100 euros.

Mine cost less than 30 euros, per way.

One of the highlights of our Amsterdam trip was the red light district.

None of us went there before, so it was going to be an eye opening experience.  On both side of the canals, there were rows and rows of sex shops, sex museums, sex theaters and window parlors. The women will usually stand at the window, dressed in their sexy lingerie. If the curtains are down, you know that there is some activities going on inside. And if you would peep through the windows, you’ll see there is a bed behind it for you-know-what.

The first thing we went was the peep show. It cost 2 euros for 5 minutes.

Most of the peep shows can be found in the sex theaters. Peep shows are the cheaper alternative to the sex shows at the sex theaters. A sex show could cost up starting from 40 euros for a 45 minute show. Peep shows are the cheaper alternatives.

Each one of us would go into a small room, something like a size of a changing room at the shopping mall.  There was a 2ft by 2ft window inside the room, and it’s dark. I couldn’t see anything at all. Initially I thought a peep show would be like peeping through a small hole to see what’s happening behind it. But no.

It wasn’t what I initially thought of.

Once I inserted a 2 euro coin into the machine, the lights lit up and now, I could see through the window. There was a woman lying on the revolving floor, without anything on, doing all her stuffs trying to make all the guys get all excited.

Was it exciting?

No! It was such a turn off.

She was huge! Not on certain parts of the body, but she was like twice my body size!

The next thing I knew was that my friend in the next room walked out. I guess he must have got completely turned off by her!

Once we were outside, everyone was cursing how the 2 euros was very well spent. But it was a good experience. Otherwise we wouldn’t have know how a peep show is like.

So, we moved on to the window parlors next.

There was this cute girl standing behind the window. We knocked on the window a few times, but she didn’t want to open it to have a conversation. We wanted to ask how much it would cost for a session. I guess she must be thinking that this 3 jokers were just having fun and not serious in giving her business.

But nevertheless, we found another pretty woman in another window. This time we would change the way we approach her. We would approach them one by one and make sure she didn’t see us together from far.

So, our hero friend went. Knocked on the window and she opened immediately.

Hero : How much is it?

Woman : 50 euros. 20 minutes.

Hero : 20 minutes..SO FAST???

Woman : *sour face* Yes.

and then she slammed the window.

And we just laughed all the way to the bar and drank ourselves until we were so drunk that we almost went to the wrong hotel.

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