Amsterdam!

Cheese!

In Amsterdam we went to the Rijks Museum and to the Maritime Museum. The Rijks Museum had paintings and artefacts from different times and different styles. The Maritime Museum showcased the navel and nautical history or The Netherlands.  Amsterdam has canals that act like roads all through the city so people can use boats and cars to get around.  The people of Amsterdam would probably be using boats much more to get around if it wasn’t for their massive dykes and dams. In fact if they didn’t have any of their dykes or dams they would all be underwater today and much of the country wouldn’t be there. The Netherlands has so many dams and dykes an at one point there is a 40 km long dam with gates to control the tidal flow or to stop fields and homes from flooding in storms. In Amsterdam they have many bridges over the canals and most of them are not lift bridges. So that means that most of the boats are specially made to be long and low in the water so they can go under the bridges with ease. While we were in Amsterdam we stayed in a one of those boats converted into a hotel which was pretty cool.    

Paintings!

Now the people of Amsterdam don’t just use cars and boats to get around. In fact mostly they use bikes Ana Frankly (Ann Frank WW2, LoL,) they probably use bikes more than any other vehicle. The Dutch think when they are on bikes they rule the road and in truth they do because of the shear amount of them sometimes. But, no fear, the city of Amsterdam is prepared for the swarms of bikes, almost everywhere there are bike lanes and passage ways. If you step on one of those bike roads you will get a wave of angry ding ding dings and some profanities in Dutch. Although we stayed in the Netherlands for a whole 4 days we didn’t see any wooden windmills, no one wearing clogs, and no big circles of cheese though I did see lots of plastic circles of cheese.  But, we did see a lot of modern metal windmills stationed in land and on the sea. Other than the bikers that will ding ding ding you at any second I’d say Amsterdam was a pretty nice city and I’d like to go back there one day.

Bikes

Ferry time!