79.Amsterdam flower market.

Some pics of Amsterdam's colorful and lively flower market.

This market is a matter of floating market, one of the few in the world, and the flower stalls stand on the houseboats. Here you can find almost all sorts of tulips and of course you can buy them and also buy the bulbs to plant by you own in your home, and that's what my sister and me did!

In Amsterdam there's The Amsterdam Tulip Museum too that we visited (here in this post there's one pic of it: Amsterdam photo diary), where you can find all history of this type of flower, its variations and its origin and you'll be surprised to know that it doesn't come from Netherlands but from it's from Turkey ;-)

- Marta -

78.Amsterdam photo diary.

At the begging of April Marta and I went to visit Amsterdam for three days! We stayed at the Room Mate Aitana Hotel that we really suggest you: it's been built recently, it's clean, modern, very comfortable and just 10-15 minutes far from the train station and the main places of the city by walk! All the entire experience in town was really a city crush! We felt in love immediately with the view: every house is so cute and characteristic and OMG all those bridges..magical!! One thing has really impressed us: everyone in Amsterdam looks relaxed and happy, maybe it's because of the bikes ahah I don't know but it was contagious :-) 

We found a lot of vintage shops in which we spent a substantial part of our time, we recommend absolutely: Episode that has two locations in the city and it's very equipped. Seriously it was a perfect sisters trip!! 

We were just a little bit disappointed by the Van Gogh Museum because we thought we would have found more paintings of the artist, but probably some were temporarily out, lent to other museums. 

What I loved most was to stay sitting outside in one of the many cool bar just watching around cool people… Oh yes Amsterdam is such a cool city and it would be great living there, maybe in the future who knows?

As you can see in the pictures our outfit were quite dedicated to keep warm and comfortable that means: pants, sweater, coat, a small bag and of course Nike shoes :-)

These are some pics of our travel, stay tuned for other ones about flower market or about bikes.

- Emma -

62.I aMstErdam!!

Oh yeeaa it's all about Amsterdam!! 

We have planned a quick trip to visit the city at the end of March and I've already started the countdown because I'm too excited:) Actually we've been there together with our parents when we were children, but honestly I don't remember a lot about that travel, I think I was too young. Then I came back just for one day during a student-exchange when I was at the high school, but you know what can you see in one day?!

We'll not have a lot of time and we need to plan it so we've started to collect informations about what to visit, about cool places to have breakfast or dinner at and of course about shops..do you have any suggestions?! 

Really I can't wait to be in Amsterdam again and considering that we are just the two of us it's going to be amazing!!! In the meanwhile what's better than a post with some pictures of the city to get into the travel mood and to start the week in a good way?

Good Monday to all of you:)

- Emma -