The last day of our Europe trip. Today was spent a little lazily, and justifiably so, before we get back to the usual hustle-bustle of daily life back in India.
Got up late and then went for a canal cruise through Amsterdam. Amsterdam is incidentally the big daddy of water canals. In fact, the whole city is a network of mini-islands and joined together by around 1200 bridges. The canals serve as the main transportation routes and in fact, DHL has its own parcel boats that deliver packages using these waterways! And to think, we associate canals only with Venice.
There’s also something very interesting I learnt about the houses in Amsterdam. Since the land space is limited, most houses have very narrow staircases. This means that it is impossible to move furniture to higher floors from within the house. So there are hoisting beams in front of all the houses along the canals. That’s how furniture gets moved into the higher floors of the houses.
In the evening, we went to the Dam Square and sat around listening to live musicians like many other tourists. Saw some quaint ‘cycle-rickshaws’ if you please, which reminded us of those back in India.
Probably, that’s when it hit us. Our Europe trip was over and early tomorrow morning we take our flight back to India. Sigh! Do we really have to go back? Can’t this trip continue forever?!?
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