Hello Hugo,
I am just going to assume that someday you might read this stuff. Alija had me take down most of this site because she thought there was two much info that would be valuable to predatory hackers. I guess she was right so I will go with that idea.
Amsterdam:
My main thought here is this is that the old central core is the most amazing wandering place that I have been. The bee hive design makes you loose direction and that’s actually the great thing. It’s so pack full of amazing stuff and places.
When you think about why the founders played it out/why it evolved this way, it’s all about maximizing encounters and cutting down the average distance between any two points, the human brain follows the same logic. It’s a big part of what made it the greatest trading place in the world.
Like the London, some of my pics:
Usually I don’t send people to Starbucks but this one is very different!
Find a wild windmill and stand close enough to get the full experience of it’s power. You will never forget it!
More later