Well, we have four more days and today, Wednesday, we went to Zandvoort and Haarlem. Zandvoort-Aan-Zee is a seaside town just several miles away from Haarlem and was our first destination. We walked along the beachside and the boardwalk before wandering through some of the shops and bakeries. The place has more of a village feel and the prices of bakery items were surprisingly lower than what we have been used to in Amsterdam.
In Haarlem we were starving and ate at a pancake house. The streets were also particularly quiet and there was also an absence of the English language though when it came to ordering food there wasn't any problem. In fact, this was the first place that we had the choice of paying separately or together, an option that is usually decided for us in Amsterdam. Walking through the cobbled streets we also noticed that some of the coffee shops here are called cannabis shops, also a striking difference from Amsterdam. Tired of walking, we went into a park to relax, but I am guessing because of a high sugar content I decided to bounce around with someone's iPod while other patrons of the park looked on. It seemed that they'd seen something like it before. In comparison to Amsterdam, both of these locations seemed much less touristy and also more relaxed.
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