I got to take a trip to the northern netherlands and experience a much smaller, dutch, college community. The city of Groningen is kind of like most college communities back in the states. It has a strip of bars on a specific street and all the college students come out at about midnight and stay out until early morning. You can't really go out anytime before then because, well, everything is pretty calm still and the party hasn't started. Apparently, Groningen houses what in the states would be considered, "frat boys," which is interesting, I guess.

The coolest activity that I was able to do there was walk through the Groninger Museum. The building itself is pretty amazing. They had contemporary exhibits as well as older paintings. They have really cultured a fine place for art admirers. I found that walking through the museum by myself allowed me to be contemplative and gave me some time away from my very close group of freinds that I travelled with.