Wednesday, August 11, 2010

First Impressions of Amsterdam


On arriving at the station you can not help notice the large number of bikes every where. Yes that is a stack of bikes you can see through the screen. Hundreds of bikes locked up at the station and there are many bike ways throughout the city. In fact 'Bikes Rule'. The second impression is the city is built around a network of canals. There is one main river that flows through the city and there are hundreds of inter-connected canals which were all dug out by hand many years ago. You can see by the photo taken from our bedroom window on arrival how close buildings are to a canal

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