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Alternative Christmas, spent in Bath in a student house that seemed to be an old house for rich people rented to students.

The most amazing thing in that house is the attic. Sit down on the bowl and look outside the window in the morning will put you in a happy mood. There’s a wonderful view, and if it’s not raining (it’s happening a lot lately, having a clear sky i mean) you can admire half Bath and one of the surrounding hills.

Alternative Christmas, spent in laziness with a morning walk around the city, cooking pancakes without milk and with different forms, doing an interview about couchsurfing for a school project, interview framed by smoking shisha and a friendly chat, playing around at home with music and movies, and cooking again, but chinese style with chopstick and belgian beer to celebrate

In the end a very alternative Christmas!

I am in Bath at the moment, and here i’ll celebrate Christmas with a couple of students and eventually some other friends.
Bath is a very nice city, small, surrounded by hills, covered in snow at the moment, with suggestive panoramas. Lots of places where you can go for a walk through a wood or on a typical english meadow
From Bath i wish you all a Merry Christmas! Stuff yourselves, have fun and stay well!!

Since i left Norway i didn’t write much, i traveled fast, let’s say it has been an interval. I was hoping to rest for a bit here in Amsterdam and now i’m doing it forcibly, because i got cold and cough. But at least i’ve got my voice back

From Narvik, Norway, the following steps were: Lulea, Stockholm, Malmo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam. Stockholm is a beautiful city, born on islands, it offer nice landscapes during the day and the night. Copenhagen too. Nice city, full of young blood, interesting and lively persons. Two things got my attention: the little mermaid is not so beautiful as they tell, although she has nice little tits, but Christiania is a very particular district, really alternative and hippie. And if you are going to Copenhagen i’ll challenge you to find the sister of the little mermaid. Try to ask around, maybe someone as seen her

From Copenhagen i wanted to reach Amsterdam by hitchhiking. Apparently it wasn’t the right decision, ’cause after leaving the house at 7 in the morning, at 2 pm i was still in the outskirt of the city. I would have been much more far if i had walked all the time. I had it up of waiting, so i went back to the city center and took the first bus to Amsterdam. The most uncomfortable bus i’ve ever taken, we had to wake up at 2:30 am to get in the ferry, at 5 to change the bus in Amsterdam, at 10 for the police control (4 people got arrested for whatever reason), at 1:30 pm i finally arrive in Amsterdam.

Imagine Venice (if you’ve been there), put it in some high tourists, some sex wondering tourists, people who just want to have fun and simple tourists and obviously all the material required to satisfy them all. In a simple view this is Amsterdam. As in Venice, it’s nice just to walk in the streets and paths and look at the not really straight houses that are not straight for a useful reason, lots of boats, ciclists everywhere (pay attention to them…they won’t stop for a simple pedestrian), some churches, some windows with prostitutes for every taste, and coffeeshops, you can recognize them from a distance thanks to their particular scent. The idea this city gave to me is of a crazy and lively Venice

At the moment i’m the guest of a couchsurfer. I’ve spent the first night in Amsterdam in a hotel, but the room was already booked for the next nights (it’s hard to find a place in this city during the weekends), so i went out to search for another place. With hostels that ask 38 euro for bed in a 20 bed room, i was almost thinking to spend the night in a pub drinking beer…it would have been more cheap and much more pleasant. But i had the luck to meet a group of people that were going to sing some mantras, i joined them aout of curiosity and at 4 am more or less they let me stay at their place, a refreshing and interesting night
The next day was a walk day. I followed the free tour in the city, it’s something i recommend to everyone who’s in a capital city and has 3 or 4 hours to spend, and the night a great couchsurfing meeting and a lot of beer! It was at the meeting that i have met my actual host. Next saturday there will be the reply, but with christmas presents as a plus!!

I wish you all a nice day