Alluring Amsterdam

25/07/2014 03:51

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Alluring Amsterdam

I found a paragraph in John Green' The Fault In Our Star book that defines Amsterdam beautifully. "Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree; it gets older as you get closer to the center" It happened all at once : We exited the highway and there were the row houses of my imagination leaning precariously toward canals, ubiquitois bicycles, and coffeshops advertising LARGE SMOKING ROOM. We drove over a canal and from atop the bridge I could see dozens of houseboats moored along the water. It looked  nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real-- everything achingly idyllic in the morning light --and I thought about how...

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