I can’t believe that exactly one year from today, I was in Holland. Who would’ve thought that one year after that I would be unemployed? At that time, I was doing great in my career in one of the main contract manufacturing companies at world wide level. Now I’m strugling to find a job.
Here is a picture of me, next to one the famous windmills, I took this picture a couple of hours after I landed in Amsterdam. I had already bought a tour package around the city before getting there, and since it was a Saturday, I had enough time to enjoy the city. You can see that I’m wearing a big coat, a jacket, a scarf, a hat, and a sweater. It was raining and chilly most of the time. As you know, I live in Guadalajara, Mexico so I’m not used to such a bad weather, although I could see that local people seemed to enjoy the weather.
Video of a tour I took from a boat ride
Here is one of my favorite videos I took when I was taking a boat ride through the Amsterdam water canals. Amsterdam is called the “Venice of the North” because it has a lot of water canals just like Venice in Italy. You will see from the video that houses and streets are very narrow, but the people of Amsterdam have made very good use of every inch of space and despite this limitation they have build a beautiful city.
You will also notice that there is a boat that in reality is a house. Due to the space limitation, some people have bought boats and now they live in them. I wish I had enough time to see how one of those house-boats looked from the inside.
Also, from the video, you can see that there are dozens of bicycles parked by the canals, this is because streets are very narrow and it’s a lot more easier to move around by bicycle than by car. Could this be the reason why I don’t remember having seen a fat man or woman?
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