The Dam

Today I headed to the city of Amsterdam! I met a lovely Brazilian girl on the train with whom I wandered around the city and experienced the mutual embarrassment of visiting a sex museum twenty minutes after having met each other! Amsterdam is a beautiful city, very easy to navigate and beyond all a very fun place to visit.

Sea of Clogs

Tourist Market

Windmolen

Flower Market

Canal (with ugly plastic bag on bicycle seat)

Much cuter bicycle seat

Typical Architecture

Van Gogh Museum

One particularly noticable feature of architecture is the tall, narrow building. This dates back to Dutch taxes which were related to building frontage. Home owners decided to keep their property as narrow as possible to avoid additional expense. A lot of the houses also have a hook at the top which was presumably employed in transporting construction materials to the upper quadrons of the house since the stairs were too bloody tight!

Word of warning: Watch out for the bike lanes

A bientot,
Niamh