Leave a comment. Filed under Amsterdam , Picture of the Day. Tagged as Amsterdam , bike , cliches , clog , Picture of the Day. Each foot has the outline of a fish curled toward the other fish so that when I put my feet together they make a circle: the Pisces sign. My tattoo artist was and presumably still is French; I was living in France so this stands to reason.
As someone who has attempted to learn more than one foreign language, I can tell you that one of the hardest things is learning jokes and wordplay. This name is a link between my body and an experience I had as a stranger in a strange landβone of my favorite people to be. Oftentimes, a stranger to your land can see things new. People have had their way with these places, photographically speaking, many times over.
What has she just eaten? What does it smell like there? What does the wind feel like? What are those people eating ice cream cones looking at? Amsterdam is a city that everyone has visited or aspires to visit. When talking to people about Amsterdam, two topics inevitably come up: coffee shops, where one can buy marijuana or spacecakes or whatever, and the red light district, where one can purchase time with a woman [and maybe a man?
My Amsterdam experience touched on these two tourist attractions in the following way:. It was a part of the hundred-year anniversary celebration of the first bar in the Red Light district considered a gay bar I think. Not sure. It could just be a hundred-year-old bar started by a lesbian woman. Also, I was alone. I had heard enough stories thank you to those who told me theirs to know being alone in Amsterdam is not something you want to be when drinking, drunk or otherwise chemically altered.
So, I went off the little island I was staying on and never again saw the Red Light district. The photo below displays two images so emblematic of Amsterdam, that they have mated: Bikes and Clogs. To be fair, though, the only clogs I saw were in tourist shops. Bikes, however, were [are] eeevvveerryyywhere.
