Bikes, bikes and of course more bikes

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What else can we say, there are thousands of bikes everywhere! The hotel staff told us that there are 750,000 inhabitants to the city of Amsterdam and over a million bikes! They have bike parking garages to park them in all over town. The drivers of cars look out in every direction to make sure they don't hit anyone. We attempted to get around on bike on Sunday however we only made one turn around the parking lot. The bikes in amsterdam generally don't have the brakes on the handle bars. You need to back peddle to stop! The bikes are a lot heavier than both of us are used to. Plus, I bike all the time and I could not ride the bike steadily. I kinda looked like I have smoked too much pot.

Amsterdam is a great, interesting city with thousands of bridges over waterways and relaxed people sitting in their boats for a lazy afternoon of cruising. We took a canal ride on Sunday and were pleasantly surprised at all of the georgous men in the boats and the attractive women to go along with them. Too bad!

The city is also well known for their prostitutes availability to purchase /smoke pot in the red light district. It is definitily eye opening. You see every type of woman dressed in almost nothing trying to seduce men into their doorway for sex. Depending on the street you venture down, will depend on the cost of the prostitute. Really interesting!

We have changed our plans somewhat and are off to Paris today. Will write more later...

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Photos

Siegel Flower Market
The Netherlands are known for a few things and one of them being flowers. They ship them to all over the world.

Restaurant or vending machine?
We found these places all over amsterdam. You walk in and pay for your hot food out of a vending machine restaurant. Behind the mini glass doors you can see the staff cooking the food. We could not bring ourselves to try this stuff...

Where am I?
Where am I?

Bikes
How many can you count?