It is midnight 2am, seems like one whole world has switched off the light.
Dimmed but quiet.
Talk back about my 'awesome' Amsterdam trip. It had revealed the another way a travel could be. We used to rely our trip on either tourguide or some pre-planned schedules which usually ended up RUSH so that the to-go-list would be fulfilled. This trip was a bit different because the time when we decided to book the flight ticket was right before our final submission. So I could hardly care much about the trip. I still didnt have a clear plan in mind even when I arrived on the ground of The Netherlands. I mean like we had some places to go in our mind but didnt really schedule them in a proper way. So we tried our way by just Amily's pocket travel book and their I-Podsss. It was quite a new experience that we took our own pace to explore the place although sometimes it ended up some time was taken when we were puzzled by the decisions n directions of where to go next.
Thing that had made this trip more an adventurous one is to cycle to get from one place to another. That had also drawn very clear line that it wasn't really awesome during the trip with many stumbling blocks that challenged my cycling skill. I had stopped cycling on the straight clear back street behind my house since around Standard 3. That was all about my memory of how cycling would be. And i wasnt sure if i could still pick up my pieces of broken confidence when i was unattempted to pass my test for a cycling badge in Scouts in Standard 6 (that bike was so much proper than the one i used to cycle la). After all, it proved the saying is barely wrong: you will never loss the skill once you master it.
BUT, there is always a BUT. This time I got my own lane on the road, sometimes sharing the lane with motobikes but sometimes on the pedestrian with crowds. Both were same quite scary. But then again that was the nice part of it. I cant put what i felt into words because the process was just too hard to be described. Wind rushed onto my face when I cycled fast while I can smell the silence of a peaceful city when I slowed down. And never ever try to run the red light like we used to do in a car. That was real dangerous because a bicycle is just too light on a tarred road and some part of the road shares the same surface with tram. However, since the bicycle and scooter are the main transports in Amsterdam, ppl tend to give way to cyclist n walking people. So we could just 'bully' with small=P
Amsterdam is such a friendly city where facades are lining up linearly next to the canals at human scale (sigh, i really cant escape from archi methodology). And owning a small boat just in front of the house or behind is very possible here. Cycling everywhere in the city, as the local does, made us more like a member of the society than just a traveller or a foreigner or what feli told me about a country named that an 'alien'. Hahaha....in this city also we observed that the local here looks fitter physically comparing to...erhmm...Glasgow. So it is quite a good place to be considered to live if your looking for one like this.lol.
In the end, it had turned up to be a memorable trip that longing for my next visit when i have my skill greatly sharpened. Then i will be able to shutter between the allies and canals without a hitch+) The thing we didnt really dig out about Amsterdam is their iconic red light district due to tiredness at night n we were not quite interested in that. About their secretive coffee shop, after all it wasnt that mystical when the smell of weeds is quite easily identified in the street...
all of us in the city n suburb
by Feli taken from her facebook album
4am.
The sun is returning the light to the world although nobody is switching it on.
Good morning.
Dimmed but quiet.
Talk back about my 'awesome' Amsterdam trip. It had revealed the another way a travel could be. We used to rely our trip on either tourguide or some pre-planned schedules which usually ended up RUSH so that the to-go-list would be fulfilled. This trip was a bit different because the time when we decided to book the flight ticket was right before our final submission. So I could hardly care much about the trip. I still didnt have a clear plan in mind even when I arrived on the ground of The Netherlands. I mean like we had some places to go in our mind but didnt really schedule them in a proper way. So we tried our way by just Amily's pocket travel book and their I-Podsss. It was quite a new experience that we took our own pace to explore the place although sometimes it ended up some time was taken when we were puzzled by the decisions n directions of where to go next.
Thing that had made this trip more an adventurous one is to cycle to get from one place to another. That had also drawn very clear line that it wasn't really awesome during the trip with many stumbling blocks that challenged my cycling skill. I had stopped cycling on the straight clear back street behind my house since around Standard 3. That was all about my memory of how cycling would be. And i wasnt sure if i could still pick up my pieces of broken confidence when i was unattempted to pass my test for a cycling badge in Scouts in Standard 6 (that bike was so much proper than the one i used to cycle la). After all, it proved the saying is barely wrong: you will never loss the skill once you master it.
BUT, there is always a BUT. This time I got my own lane on the road, sometimes sharing the lane with motobikes but sometimes on the pedestrian with crowds. Both were same quite scary. But then again that was the nice part of it. I cant put what i felt into words because the process was just too hard to be described. Wind rushed onto my face when I cycled fast while I can smell the silence of a peaceful city when I slowed down. And never ever try to run the red light like we used to do in a car. That was real dangerous because a bicycle is just too light on a tarred road and some part of the road shares the same surface with tram. However, since the bicycle and scooter are the main transports in Amsterdam, ppl tend to give way to cyclist n walking people. So we could just 'bully' with small=P
Amsterdam is such a friendly city where facades are lining up linearly next to the canals at human scale (sigh, i really cant escape from archi methodology). And owning a small boat just in front of the house or behind is very possible here. Cycling everywhere in the city, as the local does, made us more like a member of the society than just a traveller or a foreigner or what feli told me about a country named that an 'alien'. Hahaha....in this city also we observed that the local here looks fitter physically comparing to...erhmm...Glasgow. So it is quite a good place to be considered to live if your looking for one like this.lol.
In the end, it had turned up to be a memorable trip that longing for my next visit when i have my skill greatly sharpened. Then i will be able to shutter between the allies and canals without a hitch+) The thing we didnt really dig out about Amsterdam is their iconic red light district due to tiredness at night n we were not quite interested in that. About their secretive coffee shop, after all it wasnt that mystical when the smell of weeds is quite easily identified in the street...
by Feli taken from her facebook album
4am.
The sun is returning the light to the world although nobody is switching it on.
Good morning.
2 Comments:
nice place
i love it
=)
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