I had never visited the Netherlands. My family did have a Dutch foreign exchange student my freshman year in high school, but I was never interested in visiting the country, maybe for that reason. I figured I could delay a visit to Amsterdam until I was 85 years old – presuming that it would be the easiest place in the world to travel to, and probably the safest. After all, it’s flat, full of bicycles and Europeans; no point in rushing there, I can tackle it when I have entered my “boring travel” mode. But then something crazy happened — I visited Amsterdam twice in the same summer. I stopped in Amsterdam for five days on the way to Scotland, the city is a convenient stop en route to the rest of Europe, too, and then again traveling from the USA en route to Austria. My time visiting was so great that I plan on making it a regular entry and exit destination to and from Europe, when possible. Well, as everyone else already knows, Amsterdam is a pretty great place. It has a youthful, energetic, and cosmopolitan energy to its personality, and it’s no wonder that it attracts people […]
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