AMSTERDAM - Fell into the city like a sack o' bricks, having 'slept' the previous night on the floor of the Berlin airport waiting for the red eye.
As Hunter S. would say, the place is choc-full of grit - lots of dodgy alleyways, potential petty thievery on every corner and of course, myriad whorehomes. Add to that the threat caused by any of Amsterdam's 700,000 bikes, and the city can feel quite threatening at times. Condensed too, is diminuitive Netherlands, every bit of space carefully allotted, packed and used to maximum efficiency. Just checked wikipedia, and yep, it's the smallest country I've ever visited. 392 people per square kilometre to Canada's three. Hilarious to see businesswomen, complete with heels and mini-skirts, ripping around on old-school bicycles through the rush hour traffic though.
Great accomodation here too, staying with a former roommate from Alicante. She's a successful finance lawyer now, her place decked out in Ikea, which feels far too nice for us borderline vagrants.
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Sounds very interesting! Hope you're taking lots of photos!
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