i read that on a subway station step in berlin as i was heading towards the amsterdam bound train track…picture of it currently being flickered…
my travels so far have been really pleasant and i’ve been able to keep myself calm despite a random slew of problems…(bound to occur when you do anything)…i missed my train connection to amsterdam at dusseldorf (germany) because the initial train was a few minutes late…this was astonishing to me because i hadn’t experienced a train that wasn’t on schedule…i ended up taking three small regional trains to get to amsterdam last night and despite the detour and the bits of hectic transferring between each ride, it was a quite lovely to be able to see some of the smaller towns outside of the big cities…i got a nice view of both venlo and eidenhoven on the way up here…
amsterdam is an immediately unique city…one can debate the quality of the place in either direction, but it is unquestionably it’s own…it’s certainly small and a far cry from the frenzied enthusiasm of berlin, but it’s constructed beautifully (and certainly confusingly) by a series of canals, bridges and seemingly endless brick roads…it is also entirely run by bikers (marwan, this place is for you)…in fact, the city even has special traffic lights designed purely to tell bikers when it’s safe for them to go…
i’ve yet to take many amsterdam photos because i woke up early this morning and went straight to the bike rental shop…there, i picked a pretty well designed street bike and have been riding around the city since…i stopped off a the central station to make a reservation for my trip to paris…a smart decision as there were a hundred other passengers stranded today because they didn’t make reservations far enough in advance…oh paris, you transit whore…
tonight, some argentine food and a coffeeshop or two before heading down to the red light district to see what the hub-hub is about…should get some interesting photos from that adventure…stay tuned…
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