Do šľaka, I forgot my camera at home. Ok no photos.
I suspect I will like Amsterdam when after my arrival, I bought a tram ticket and took the tram to my hotel and the woman, who is sitting next to the door and giving stamps on pasengers ticket when boarding the tram, started sometimes to sing into the microphone during the journey. It was something like "..Oh .. beautiful day, beautiful day.. la la.." :)
There are lots of coffee shops and mushroom shops in the city. You can buy coffee, tea, marijuana, hashish, hallucinogenic mushrooms there legally even in the daylight. Interesting. Quite different from the steril environment in Singapore, where you get death penalty for drugs.
I saw less policemen in Amsterdam than Singapore. Staff in one of these magic mushroom shops was not very frendly, in hurry and with very intent stare look, so my experience with magic mushrooms came to the end at this stage. :)
Next to these shops you can find church and on Sunday morning, there is a free vernissage of photos instead of Sunday service. Or I have seen a former church converted into a discotheque club.
There are bicycles everywhere, I have seen definitely more bicycles than cars. And people use it for everything, for carrying shopping in the big wooden box on the front wheel or for carrying up to three children in that box :) or on a small seat in the middle.
This will London look like once barrel of oil will cost 700 $.
Amsterdam known as "Venice of the North" is built on a cobweb of canals. It gave me a specific sight on the streets and the architecture when I took one of those one hour boat canal cruise around the city with some stories behind this one of the former most important harbours in the world.
Van Gogh Museum looks very small from outside but is very compact, friendly and with lots of
Van Gogh's and other artists paintings and stories behind it.
There is a north-east part of the city which turns into a red-light district after the sunset.
It's network of sex shops, shows, theatres, sex museums and red light illuminated show-windows with standing prostitutes offering services.
Streets were packed by people, I think 80% of them were tourists so I felt safe even in this strange area in the night. One guy offered me cacaine, without success.
Amsterdam is a city with interesting history, architecture, green park areas and way of life.
