It would be unfair to say that my part of the tour was the cultural portion, but as these photos show, things took a turn into a different kind of culture once Jimmy joined us for the rest of the evening. Granted, I’d discovered our first stop with Betsy, the jenever bar Wyand Fockink, where they fill the glasses so full that you have to lean over the bar to take the first sip before you can lift the glass. Then we had dinner at the brewpub De Bekeerde Suster (the Converted Sister) that Steve and I had discovered on our wanderings. They brew four beers; our favorite was the Manke Monnik 7.2% (the Limp Monk). The night was still young, so we made our way to another bar where we tried absinthe for the first time (here Jimmy is dissolving the sugar into the spirits to produce a Flaming Green Fairy). As this other photo shows, our evening ended in the Red Light District, which definitely takes on a different look after dark. I now understand why Jimmy usually gives this tour without me, but luckily we were all still laughing when we got on the train for home.
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