hello everybody it is
David Clausen with English - quickly
.com
and today we will do some travel English
with the destination of the month
from Wikitravel which is the city of
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands
and east of the Netherlands is Germany
west is England or GB
south of the Netherlands is Belgium
and this area here is called the north sea which borders the Netherlands
and Amsterdam
is beautiful in spring
because the winter
now gives us these beautiful flowers
here are some of the beautiful flowers
that you can get
in Amsterdam
and in this month they have Kings Day
it's a festival with people dressed in orange
with bands playing and many on street parties
here is just some quick videos to give you
an idea of the
Kings' day festival
so you can see that spring is a very good time to be in Amsterdam
this is one of the best pictures that I've seen from Amsterdam it's escape cityscape in
architecture you can get a panoramic view of the city
and it's on that UNESCO world heritage site
this canal ring
right here that was built in the 17th century Amsterdam has one of the largest historic city
centers in Europe with about 7000 registered historic
buildings so there's a lot of great
architecture in Amsterdam
many people say it's the Venice of the north because of all the canals and beautiful buildings
the official language in Amsterdam or Holland or Netherlands is Dutch
and the population in the Netherlands or Holland is 16,819,595
and in Amsterdam it's about 1.5 million
people in the metro area
the Rijksmuseum
is a Dutch National museum
and one of the most famous artists is Rembrandt
who was a Dutch painter
that lived from 1606 until 1669
and I will show you just a few paintings here of Rembrandt
to give you an idea of how classical and an influential artist that he was
another museum you'd like to visit in Amsterdam is Van Gogh museum
and here is just a couple of his
paintings from Van Gogh
and I actually did a video about Van Gogh so I'll give you a link
to it so you can check it out if you would like
and a popular
attraction is also the red light district
and that's where they have things like prostitution or sex work you might say
here's a picture of
a prostitute and a man making negotiations you might say
and the red light district has these cannabis coffee shops or
marijuana
here's an example of a coffee shop where you smoke a bong of marijuana and what's cool is that they have the canal cruises
where you can go up the canals and
do different things so they have a canal bus an Amsterdam boat guide
jewell cruise is if you like diamonds and jewelry
and here's a canal cruise from the lovers company you can have a nice romantic
day canal cruise with your lover
and what's cool is that Amsterdam has so many free
or no money things to do they have a fun ferry free lunch concerts this beautiful garden
open air theaters
and a fun one would be to see these diamond factories
so here is a typical diamond factory that you can do a tour of
and just so you know, these are diamonds so you can see how they are made
in Amsterdam and Amsterdam is a cultural haven with year round festivals for every pocket and every pocket means
how much money you have
so every month of the year has fun festivals including that king's day I showed you in April
and street markets if you like to buy things
they have many fun markets to go shop at
I'll scroll through and you can see all the different types of markets where you can go buy things
and here is some local specialties or things
that are food unique to Amsterdam
the first is their local cheese
you have to try some of their cheese in Amsterdam
and here is Amsterdam Ossenworst
Ossonworst is a raw beef sausage originating in Amsterdam and it's made of ox meat
and this is an ox like a cow or cattle
and this is another
Amsterdam specialty called bitterballen and it's a type of meat ball
and very common is a fish called herring you can eat a herring sandwich in Holland which is pretty famous
so that's our travel English video of today the capital of
the Netherlands called Amsterdam
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