Out a Aboot Day 1: Kalverstraat

Met Ellen at Central station, but during the day it's much busier so I was a little dizzy from all the traffic not to mention I was lost AGAIN. Ran to the nearest Green phone and was about to call Ellen with my credit card, when she tapped me on the shoulder right before I put in my credit card (THANK GOD - that would've been another $26CAD call for those few seconds).

from there we walked south along the touristy 'Damrak' Street which led to Kalverstraat to pick up some of the items on my list!



Kalverstraat is the busiest shopping street in the A'dam. It's named after the kalvermarkt (calves market) that took place over there until the 17th century. The street begins at Dam Square and ends at Munttoren and is mainly lined with clothing stores but you would find book stores, phone shops, record shops and other accessory related shops too.

Got my self a phone, a sony ericsson K380i, prepaid on the vodafone network, which I soon realized was a mistake, some towels, a network cable (which eventually led to me finding out that internet doesn't work in that room) and soon discovered some of my favourite sandwich places in town: La Place.

Haha of course when buying this stuff, you start converting everything, but I think most things are fairly priced, yet a little more expensive then things at home.