With these few words, I think you have SO nailed it. There seem to be quite a few folks here who go to Amsterdam to spend their entire time in coffeeshops or in a rented appartment toking away.Why do we all love this city so much?
( of course, there is the issue of not feeling like a criminal when ya lite up, but that can not be the whole of it - can it?)
There's the damn eye candy in every direction you turn your head -
Love the architecture, the angles of the wobbly buildings,
The plants, the way residents take over the sidewalk and street.
(on one of the hot nights a couple took their table onto the canal bridge -
Table cloth, candles, flowers, wine and an entire meal. No police came to shoo them away.)
I know I appreciate the spirit of this place, like at the church outside the door, there are statues that celebrate man's fight against authority and inequality.
Don't know many places these types of acts are celebrated.
Is that it?
Is that what makes this place unique?
The celebration of the basic human spirit and the triumph of the little guy
Over authority.
I go there for the eye candy and the atmosphere. Stepping out of Centraal feels like coming home. Every. Single. Time.
The coffeeshops are just an added bonus. Sure it's fun to be able to get all the really nice stuff since here in Germany I get two kinds of weed: The one that's there or none. OK, with three sources that's three kinds. But nobody ever knows what strain it's supposed to be. It's weed, take it or leave it. And it's never any of the *berry, Diesel, Cheese, *Lemon* or other fancy stuff. But so what, I can get weed at home and I definitely cannot get all the rest of Amsterdam at home.
Plus, you gotta love the Dutch as a people (not saying that you don't, I know you do
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