– Hello friends, welcome to Amsterdam!
– We found it nice.
– We will distribute life jackets to you all for your safety soon. Not to scare, but we are below sea level now.
– What life jacket brother? We’re on land. Look, we’re just stepping on the ground.
Yes, we were on land, but on a land about three meters below sea level. Netherland did not say “Low country” in vain.
– Oh, don’t you have a tsunami or something? When we say let’s travel, let’s not go to the silver?
It is not unimaginable. When you sit down and think like that, you don’t mind. Since we are lower than the sea, shouldn’t it be flooded? It is necessary that the men are working, they have done it. The Dutch, who have struggled with water, have been the primary ones in this business.
They surrounded the North Sea with embankments and flaps and protected the mainland. The city was founded by digging soil from the sea, drying the water, and piling on clay and sand. In time, Napoleon came up to this place and said, “No heck of this wetland! said. The Netherlands, the third largest agricultural country in the world, is inefficient and withdrawn.
They used thousands of windmills to dry the water in the soil. They turned some of them home today. The mill houses are a copy of Sirin Baba’s mushroom house. He is even much cuter than him. It creates a great sympathy, happiness and peace in man.
This trip to Amsterdam has changed the future plans of our group of 10 people. In addition to those who want to spend the rest of their life in a windmill or on a river ship or by using a bicycle, they also want to be a “Cow!” There were those who got it. I’m talking about a real, Dutch cow that you know. If you see how they are free and happy with hundreds of relatives in the vast green plains, you would like to be a cow too. It is such a peaceful, magnificent painting that people come out of the vehicle and graze with them on the plain.
These lucky “Fritz” or “Holstein” cows living in the Netherlands give between 8,000 and 20,000 liters of milk per year, both from happiness and from cold and humid air. Hey, thank you!
We continue on our way. We crossed the İnekli plain, the motorway going over the sea and came to an island out of paradise called “Marken”. The screamer, especially I…
Think of a lush plain, lots of canals pass through it, tiny detached houses around it … The first floor of the houses is usually covered with brick and the second floor is covered with colorful wood. It is usually painted green to be compatible with nature. The houses are tiny, but the windows are huge. Lace curtains gathered at the edge of each window. As if the passersby, vases and flowers were placed symmetrically in front of the window to create a visual feast.
Small cute garden furniture, tiny sculptures, wheelbarrows, colorful flowers, hydrangeas, seasonal flowers in their gardens from wrought iron to the woods.
This island called “Marken” shined like the sun and dazzled our eyes. Of course, this glow did not prevent us from seeing spider webs covering the flowers and bushes.
“How much they respect nature, they did not even touch the nets in the garden in order not to harm the spiders.” While thinking, a Dutch friend explained that this was not only a way to protect nature, but a way to protect themselves from flies. Sure! Even though we have flies all over the pond and canal, the flies fly, you can’t sit by the still water. Because we clear the surrounding spider webs by saying “How neglected the moon is”.
In addition to being a cow among our friends we traveled, there were also people who wanted to throw themselves in a cheese boat and live there until the end of their life. Fortunately, by reminding our country’s unique Ezine cheese, we succeeded in persuading them to return home for trouble. The cheese issue is really huge. From Gouda to Edam, solitary, basil, garlic, cumin, human beings are losing themselves in a thousand kinds of cheese. I suspect that the cheese company “Henri Willig”, with which we shop, is a monopoly in the Netherlands. Wherever I go I have always seen the same brand.
The guys were selling 20 tons of cheese a day. Good health to me! Do these Dutch people eat cheese instead of drinking water? Perhaps the secret of their tall height is passing through milk, who knows.
We all remained like dwarves in the giant country Netherlands. The average height for women was 1.85 and 1.92 for men. My neck was grasped from lifting my head to look at people’s face.
Giant Dutch people are as healthy and sculpted as they are long. The secret must be riding a bicycle. Everyone rides bikes to go anywhere, in any weather. They whiz. They have the upper hand in traffic. Although you are watched by cars as a pedestrian, you can mow instantly by bicycles. It is necessary to be very careful.
Other drugs that are of interest to tourists are light drugs that are sold legally. Since it is free, it does not attract much attention from the Dutch people. These can be sold not only in “Coffe shops” but also in grocery stores, florists and everywhere with cookies, sugar or chocolate form.
There is also a world-famous 250-year-old “Red Light District”. This is a legal and 24-hour police protection brothel area. It is a place where almost all tourists coming to Amsterdam are guided with the university.
The Netherlands, one of the leading countries in human rights and freedom, has legalized this business considering that the reproductive need, which is one of our basic instincts, should be met as natural and controlled as feeding.
The same Netherlands, which advocates freedom of thought, has banned Hitler’s book “My Fight”. This is, “Is there any country in the world that supports freedom of opinion?” brings the question to the mind of man.
If we had a chance to look at the world from above, would we see that there was the same order everywhere? Would we say, “Whoever has power sets the rules, imposes their beliefs with or without impacting their beliefs?” Do you think that the only thing that changes with time and country is which power is obtained and at what intensity is it applied?
This trip made them think too…
Nevertheless, Amsterdam was a place where we filled our “peace” with our friendly people, calmness, plains and canals. If you have a list of places to see, I recommend adding Amsterdam.
This article was previously published in the Media Diary.