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Amsterdam Pgs. 4-9

Geertruidenberg Pg. 10

Walking around town is a pleasure. One never knows what one will find around the next corner. That's Saint Nicolas Church in back of the buildings.	Even though some of the streets are quite narrow, they still can be converted into outdoor cafes quite easily. Here also you will find many 'brown cafes' -- dark, old style drinking establishments.

Empty now, but you should see it when the delivery trucks are there. What a traffic jam.	Notice the leaning building. If you look close you will see a beam and a hook near the gable top. This served as a way of hoisting furniture and other goods to the top floor of the narrow buildings.

This old house requires additional shoring, but the lean is really built in.	Many house originally built as merchant goods storage facilities and the beam and hook system served an important purpose for hoisting to upper floor storage. An added advantage was that the slight lean also caused the rain to run off the facade without soaking it.

Right along side the Barbazon Plaza. I believe that this house leans the most of any in the city.	Water system all over town is ideal for touring via tour boats.

Tour boats leave many times per hour and are pretty full. Amsterdam is a major tourist city.	In Amsterdam, there are 160 canals with combined length of 47 miles spanned by 1,281 bridges. In the center city there are rings of canals called 'grachtengordel.'

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