The picture is somehow unrealistic – wherever you look, there are channels, bridges, water and bicycles. The buildings have sometimes their basements on the water and they are sticking to each other as birds in a storm – there is no beginning and no end – only a long line of multi colour buildings.
Amsterdam city
You can buy almost everything in Amsterdam, including drugs. If you go to a coffee shop for example, you can get stoned with the cake they offer as there is some stuff inside. Yes, it is important to know where are you going and what are you having in advance. Things are not always what they seem to be.
Amsterdam is full of museums and works of art, with real chedeuvers. One has to have at least a month in order to take a glance at them. I chose the other way – decided to go only to Van Gogh’s museum as to me he is the greatest.
Van Gogh’s museum in not very big. It has two floors with the masterpieces of the artist and in between them, on the walls, some parts of Van Gogh’s history is revealed. On the second floor a painting is behind the glass and with some special technique one can see the different layers of the paintings which were painted one on top of the other. That is because the great master was very poor and the canvas very expensive in order to use them just once. There are so many chedeuvers that were painted in this manner over the centuries.
A place not to miss is the flower market. After I saw it I was convinced that there is no man on Earth who, after being at this market, would not become flower addict. It’s never too late for a try.
