Amsterdam, the Netherlands

For a break of Berlin, my roommate Robin and I went to Amsterdam for the weekend, and there I met up with some of my friends from Moscow. There's not much to say to this post, but I have to say Holland is a very impressive country for its size, and that Amsterdam is a very unique city. Peter the Great was also very impressed with Dutch culture, and implemented many reforms to Russia. Amsterdam is known for many different things, but the canals, bikes, and stroop waffles makes it uniquely dutch. We spent three days in Amsterdam, and during that time, we went to the Van Gogh Museum, walked around the Rijksmuseum, rode our bikes through Amsterdam, went clubbing, went out of the city to see some windmills and real dutch people, and lastly saw where Sergei and Pavel studied when they were here 2 years ago.

We walked so much, and also rode our bikes that I was really tired. Amsterdam is tiny in size, but huge in things to see. There are so many canals too that it's really easy to get lost. All the streets look more or less similar.
Here Nastya and I are walked through the Flower Market. There are a lot of tulips in holland, but they also have a many other type of plants, and of course, Nastya being the typical Russian tourist had to bring souvenirs home. The flower market, however, is separate from the other market, which we also went to, and is located more or less in the center of Amsterdam. The regular market, open on Saturdays is located near the Heineken Brewery, and sells everything, (including live lobster and octopuses). Also the weather in Amsterdam is hard to predict, because from minute to minute it changes, so it can change from sunny to rain several times over the course of the day.
Here we are in some village 30km outside of Amsterdam, and yes it's not a suburb, and not even a outlier, but really a village that is not part of Amsterdam. It was really windy here, and unfortunately these old relic windmills don't spin anymore (the blades were chained down), but you could see lots of livestock and cheese farms (really what Holland is known for other than wooden shoes). This village was also on the inlet that goes to the Atlantic so it was pretty windy and chilly. Not the nicest climates to say the least.
Standing at the harbor with Sergei. It was good to see my old friend from Moscow, and spend the weekend with him and Nastya. Actually we all drove back to Berlin, so they got to see the city where I live too.

Not much else to describe about Amsterdam unfortunately.