AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Holland) – Whenever you tell people
that you plan to make a trip to Amsterdam, you are met with a chuckle and a
suggestive smirk. After all, it is home to the Red Light District and the
ganja-crazed. Yet after a weekend trip, Juston and I discovered there is a lot
more to the city than just that. Between
old churches, quaint houses, and peaceful canals, Amsterdam is a rather pretty
city filled with culture and vitality. SPOILER ALERT: we did not partake in any
recreational drug use. Like cool kids, we are above the influence.
Long before the advent of prostitute unions and drug
tourism, Amsterdam was a refuge for Protestants and Jews fleeing Belgium in the
16th century. It is also
where Anne Frank and her family, along with four others, lived in a “secret
annex” above the warehouse of her father’s company. Since it’s publication, the
diary Anne kept during her stay in the annex has become one of the world’s
most-read books.
In addition to Amsterdam, we traveled to nearby Keukenhof
for the annual Tulip Festival.
As a whole, the Netherlands (from what we have seen of it)
has a unique and folksy, earnest charm about it. Only four hours from our house in Celle, we
are definitely happy we made the weekend trip.
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