The red light district

Amsterdam is a pretty wild place to visit. The last time I visited was 4 years ago in the summer of 2009 with my cousin Rachel. We went into a weed shop where we were offered ecstasy and Viagra, we went on a boat ride through the city which lasted around an hour, where a drunk guy was throwing up behind us constantly, in fact I remember turning around to witness him throwing up through his nose at one point, nice! :S

We were hungry and so were looking for a nice restaurant to eat in, so we asked a local if he could direct us to a nice place to eat, whether purposely or not  (I'm still not sure) he directed us to the red light district
It was really quite a disturbing place to find ourselves in unexpectedly.

I looked into what I thought was a shop window and saw what I thought was a mannequin, quite a lifelike mannequin, when her legs started to move I realised this was no mannequin,it was a real woman in her underwear. I thought, 'that's strange' but casually carried on walking, I looked to my right and saw a few more girls, standing behind the windows, practically naked waving to me through the glass panels, I don't know why I waved back but I did, out of naivety perhaps?.  

I soon realised that these girls were trying to attract my attention for more than I had bargained for, everywhere I looked, there were girls in the windows flirting with me, waving, licking their lips and blowing kisses.

At this point I think it was completely the wrong time to take my camera out and start checking through my photos, one of the girls in the window saw me with a camera in my hand and thought I was taking a photo of her and stormed out of her window, wearing just a thong and a bra and ran straight towards me, and pushed me hard in the chest! and everyone was looking!! Having got a closer view it appeared it was a transvestite :S why me????

All I wanted to do at this point was get the hell out of this place, no sooner had IT disappeared back into her window to try and drum up more business a tall muscular Dutch man grabbed me by the shirt and threatened to break my neck if he caught me taking photos of any of his girls again!! he checked my camera but obviously I hadn't actually got any pictures. The only thing I was guilty of was being naive, but a word of warning to anyone who ends up at the red light district, do not have your camera on show, you may end up dead!