Wow, that snake venom thing is incredible.
I went to Amsterdam. The trip would have been vastly improved if any of the following had not been the case:
1) I had only just become able to stand upright following a horrific, hallucination-inducing bout of tonsillitis
2) I packed whilst under the influence of the fever and therefore put all shorts and trousers into one bag and all t-shirts into another, which was the one I took. I therefore spent the weekend wearing the dress, thick woollen tights, and knee-high boots I had travelled in.
3) The friends with whom I was there had misinformed me, and were booked into a different hotel until the night I left, so I was alone in the hostel.
4) The hostel had no air conditioning, the windows did not open, and my room was occupied by fifteen giggling German girls who never slept.
Amsterdam was awful.