Amsterdam

I had a chance to go the business trip to Amsterdam for 3 days. My colleagues flew from Helsinki, but I flew from St. Petersburg. In the airport of Amsterdam was so strong fog, that lot of arrival planes were delayed or diverted. My plane landed, thanks to brave Russian pilot, but my colleagues flew to Brussels.)))

                                                                                                                                                                          
Well I had a little bit time to walk around in the city center and photo. There was still some fog in the air also in center.

Amsterdam is the city of bikes! They have solved their traffic jams this way, everybody are driving by bikes. Well they have also some problems e.g. to find parking places for them. Below is the picture how they solved little bit this challenge. There are some canal boats and their meaning is only to be parking platform for bikes, this is just because all space beside of the streets are busy for parked bikes!! This kind of biking culture could solve some traffic problems also in St. Petersburg, but attitude should change totally. I saw stylish mature lady with long and great fur driving by bike and her handbag was in the bright yellow basket at front of the bike....so Bohemian!! Of course in this kind of moment camera is in the backpack.(((
These kind of stylish mature ladies in St. Petersburg are coming out only from Lexus, when their driver opens the door.)))
Okay we have -25C sometimes in the winter and biking wouldn't be so great.))
I rented a bike and tried also. In the beginning driving is even little bit difficult there, because you have own one-way lanes, own traffic lights etc. for bikes, but I used to it very fast.

I met there some strange and great people e.g. this hippie-troubadour, who wanted to tell some philosophies of life to everybody or this small boy, who just pop up from somewhere and wanted to tell me something, when I was shooting photos near of Van Gogh museum.

I think I'll return back to Amsterdam... in December or maybe in summer...