Iamsterdam

So Amsterdam. I was there for three days and I fell in love with it so feel that it deserves a separate blogpost, just a tiny one. It is such a beautiful city- with all it’s twisty streets and canals and boats. Millions of bikes. They are probably more dangerous to the pedestrians than the cars. And it’s unpredictable weather. About one month ago the dutch had a strike against bad weather there, can you imagine? Crazy ! And according to my source it worked. They are quite crazy about strikes in general. They are not afraid to stand up for what they believe and that’s another reason why I loved Amsterdam. And of course it’s diversity and tolerance- the coffeeshops, the red light district, children day care centre and churches peacefully coexist together despite being complete opposites. I happened to witness the favourite sport of drunk Dutch men- throwing unlocked bicycles in the canal. It’s a competition to see who can throw them the furthest as I later found out. I was quiet in a hurry back then because I didn’t want to end up in the canal with the bikes. My hostel was near the Museumplein so I could walk everywhere by foot. Very useful. Met a few people from Argentina with who I had a couple of beers at 9am during breakfast because they insisted. On our third day we got involved in a little adventure. We went to have lunch in a beautiful cafe near the river. It was the sunniest day and we were truly enjoying ourselves. And then suddenly, I am not entirely sure how a woman fell of her chair into the canal. Again, I am not quite sure how but she managed to grab the edge to the pavement so she didn’t fall into the water directly. She was hanging above the water with her expensive camera on her neck. Luckily everybody reacted really quickly. People jumped to pull her out. Unfortunately her bag was already in the water so as a small boat was passing by we asked them to pull the lady’s stuff out of the water and the cafe’s chair. Quite a few people gathered to watch the mini show at the other side of the canal and as soon as the lady, her bag and the chair were safe they started to applaude. So my piece of advice would be- yes it’s nice to sit and chill near the beautiful canals of Amsterdam but don’t get too chilled (or stoned haha) cause well... You can easily end up in the water together with the bikes. What else to tell? Well, went out at night, got lost a couple of times, and had a lot of fun during entire time of my stay. I intend to be back to the Dam someday. I met quite a few people who lived there for a while and then came back because they loved Amsterdam and I can perfectly see why. It was amazing. I am really glad it ended up being my last stop in Europe. Iamsterdam. I <3 Amsterdam !!