European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Restaurants ice Cream Parlours and sex shops form a commercial collage in Lange Nezet a downtown Alley. A jordanian Vendor prepares a Sale at a Middle Eastern fast food shop in dam Straat continued from Page 5 Airport where you can Board a commuter train for the 20-minute ride to downtown. A round trip ticket costs 9 a a guilders $4.80. The hotel also lets guests who put Down a 100-Guilder refundable Deposit use a free bicycle. Unfortunately they re All one speeds. Mine was a woman s Model. It fell Over once when i stopped. I forgot there was no horizontal bar that my legs could use to steady it. After a couple of hours of showering shaving and shaking out the jams Many on the tour group Rode downtown with Wolfgang who promised a look at the famous red Light District after dinner. Others set off atone. It a Quot i just like to explore the City on my own without having my direction dictated Quot said one of them army capt. Victor Perez assigned to trial defense service in Darmstadt Germany. A. Perez a native of Hoboken n.j., said he has taken five different bus trips. He enjoyed the one to Amsterdam and would like to do it again so he can show his nieces the House where Anne Frank and her family hid from the nazis. But Wolfgang had warned that the House is Small and the waiting lines Are Long. The streets of downtown Amsterdam Are lined with Yard High Metal guar posts that Bear the three is of the City s Flag. Those letters supposedly refer to three evil spirits driven out of town during the Middle Ages but today they might As Well stand for sex drugs and Rock n Toni. The poles even look like phallic symbols. The sex Trade is without question a major drawing card in Amsterdam. The City Core is a riot of sex a City of bicycles does t always respect them. This too tired specimen sporting the Salvador Dali look was parked a and probably abandoned a in dam Straat
