Well. An interesting day in Amsterdam. We had a tour scheduled, a canal boat tour
and then time on our own. When we
boarded the bus, we were told that the city would be crowded because there was
a gay pride canal boat parade in the afternoon, but that we would be gone
before it started. No problem. What we later learned was that there were one
to two million extra people and that this was the last weekend of a two week
(!) celebration. Big problem! There was
trash everywhere, much like the day after Carnival in Rio. It was not a particularly satisfying
visit. In fact. We ended up getting a
refund of the money we spent for the tour.
But it's still an interesting city.
There are 750,000 people in Amsterdam
and one million bikes, all speeding around as if they owned the place.
And lots of cheese!
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