I've made around eight trips over the years into the Netherlands. Sometimes for a weekend....sometimes for a full-week. So, some observations:
First, you don't go for the food (it's marginal and nothing to brag about).
Second, to sit in a Dutch beer-garden...mid-summer....drinking a decent beer....is a four-star experience.
Third, no matter where you go....the general feeling is that engineers have designed the look, feel, streets, railway system, and highways.
Fourth, you just rarely find beggars on the street. Now....if you stand in Amsterdam....yeah....fair number of doped-up folks.
Fifth, it's a odd feeling.....all this massive infrastructure....will eventually require replacement, and I don't think they ever calculated this day in coming.
Finally, you sense that they want to overly impress visitors....'you-could-be-like-us'. But then you start to think....what'd these folks pay for the 'look'?
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