Amsterdam, 2013

Amsterdam is a city of bicycles, trash bins, and pavement tiles. The city is very beautiful, cozy, and clean. I highly recommend visiting it.

During roadworks, signs with yellow "collars" are installed.

All courtyards and road shoulders are packed with bicycles in the morning.

Amsterdam residents run in the mornings.

The park is empty on Sunday morning.

Not many cars.

Does Anna Serena Ferucci live here?

The courtyards on central streets have many modest cars. Beautiful lamps line the road.

Windows are rarely curtained. But unused cars are carefully covered.

Tour boats similar to Moscow's pleasure boats cruise the canals.

In a city of bicycles and cyclists, bike rentals are a must.

Bike lanes are on the roadway. They're separated from cars by markings and color. Bollards are less common.

Microcar.

Siemens Combino tram.

Tiles everywhere.

Glass, bins. Lamps hang on wires right above pedestrians' heads.

Bollards to keep cars out.

Ducks and boats. The windows have identical frames.

Empty street signs.

Signs and mailboxes in the courtyard.

More fallen bikes than in Berlin.

City logo. There are several such structures in the city - at the city museum and on the embankment.

Besides bicycles, scooters are very common in Amsterdam.

Creepy shop window. House numbers are divided into odd and even sides.

Find your bicycle.

Some streets are so narrow that two cars can't pass each other.

City museum grounds.

It has a very beautiful carpet.

Some street cafes don't put away furniture and ashtrays at night.

Entrance decoration.

The Red Light District has many establishments.

Historic center.

Warning signs have thick red borders. Traffic lights are on both sides of the road. A wide-angle mirror hangs under the right traffic light.

Trash in bags.

Public service announcement.

Prohibition signs.

Tile patterns in the sidewalk.

Protection against intruders.

A drainpipe passes through a bas-relief.

Door with resident's name.

Another microcar.

Cat and mailboxes.

Traffic light for cyclists and a button to change the light for motorists.

Another button.

Vondelpark.

Info stand attached to a pipe in an unusual way.

Besides bicycles.

Traffic light indicates tram.

Scooter.

Portable toilet.

Street box protected from trash accumulation by its sloping lid.

Falling brick.

Behind the houses.

Fire hydrant.

Benches made of thin metal and a duck.

Something like "Clear the passage". Correct me if I'm wrong.

In Amsterdam I saw only one dog. Here it is.

Contraceptives shop.

Bridge name on the railing.

Lawn decorated with metal lizards.

Falling lamp post.

Bicycle.

Trash can and bins.

Tram stop and toppled bicycles.

In the background, an interesting sign about video surveillance.

Old tram of indeterminate model.

No drinking!

Dutch shoe.

Mailboxes. The door still has a letter slot.

Hello Spielberg.

Street closed until March 29. The facade of the house on the right is decorated with crosses.

Cheese shop.

In the Red Light District, girls work around the clock.

Police on bicycles.

Besides bicycles and motorcycles.

Bubble-textured trash can isn't afraid of stickers.

Shoebaloo?

Corner house.

Scooters.

Sign says "No bubbling". Or maybe don't pass under the bridge. Unclear.

Cows.

Mailboxes.

Pedestrian street.

The entrance to the through passage is marked with a no bicycles sign.

Images of saints.

Ducks flying.

Another cow.

A bicycle with the Apple logo.

Everything for five euros.

Butt on the central square.

Some corners are covered with metal sheets so people don't urinate there.

Merciless storefront.

Even a small bridge is signed.

Swans in the canals.

Two euro cabins!

Probably there was a window here.

Monk Demonnik.

Contrasting signs.

Poles.

Narrow pedestrian street.

Mouse.

"Road"?

Trees on the roof.

Graffiti.

The Dutch believe that the scarier the witch figurine, the better it wards off troubles from the house.

A beautiful pole.

An unclear sign.

Everything is legal.

A beautiful porch detail.

Do not store bicycles!