I arrived in Amsterdam today after a 8 hour train ride from Basel. Man did I ever sleep. After that long ride I was fully energized and ready to tackle the day with my friend of a friend Jente.
Jente is the cousin of my friend Anna from the Odyssey program. She graciously offered to host me here after speaking with Anna. I dropped off my stuff in her house and we rented a bike for me and toured around Amsterdam the way it is supposed to - on two wheels! I fuckin love the biking culture here, although as a first time tourist it can be daunting if you are not used to biking.
Even though I am no rookie on the bike, the traffic here combined with the reckless bikers can definitely put a scare to anyone. On top of that the bike I got is a pedal brake bike which takes some getting used to. But after a successful afternoon and night touring around the city on bikes I feel like one of the locals.
Tomorrow we are going to check out a special coffee house and tour some more around on what else but my favourite invention - bikes!
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| Jente! |
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| Small street by red light district. |
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| Bike powered lights display |
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| A monument hommage to the dutch painter Rembrant |
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| Look at these beautiful bikes! They are everywhere! |
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| Drunk people sometimes tries to toss bikes into the river. It is apparently quite a sight to see in the summer time when the boat picks up the ones stuck at the bottom. This guy was lucky he locked his bike to the rail. |
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| Trying frites with mayo |
Peace from Amsterdam.
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