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Amsterdam is a city of canals and curious prospects like Venice, but unlike Venice, she never shows off. Ibid.

Where do hamsters come from?Hamsterdam

If you die in Amsterdam and have no friends or family to mourn you, a poet and a civil servant will come together to have a respectful and personal funeral for you.

Amsterdam is a city built on herring bones.

Amsterdam is the Venice of the North

Amsterdam is a city with as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

Amsterdam is full of ghosts and full of a tantalizing conflict of doubts and hopes.

Amsterdam is a paltry, rubbishy Venice.

Amsterdam is a bicycle intensive country --- 40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle