Amsterdam, the city of tulips, pot, and beautiful women. This city started as every other city of those days near the sea started, as a fishing port. In the twelfth century, the construction of a dike (dam) on the Amstel river gave its name to the town there: Amsteldam. In 1358 Amsteldam earned a reputation as a commercial center in northern Europe. Carlos V of Spain inherited the Netherlands from his grandmother Maria. A.K.A. María de Borgoña. (France)
The dependence of Spain and the discovery of the New World opened new opportunities to Amsterdam, which became, after Lisbon, the most important port in the world. Amsteldam specialized in the grain and arms trade and hosted the resale of spices from India, after opening the king of Portugal a delegation in the city. There is something that is used to impact the most to people and personally sure did to me was to found out that at the market sell kits to plant your pot at home. Also while you are walking by some cafeterias, well known by the residents, you can smell something weird. Netherlands is considered a bilingual country, they speak Deutch and Frisian. Frisian language is just spoken by half a million of the population and Netherlands count with a population of over 16 million. Another thing that people, mainly from America, are not used to is legal companion women. These women ought to have the permission to work like this in order to receive protection of the state that any other worker would receive. 
A thing that shocked me in my experience in Amsterdam was the large number of bicycles that there were, my family and I had to be more aware of bicycles than cars. I went there on spring and I had the chance to watch the tulips gardens and the weather was nice in the day, neither cold nor hot. A very peculiar fast food that we had were fries in a cone, until that moment I hadn't heard nothing similar to it, there were so many toppings to choose that you wouldn't have known which one to eat first. Out of all the attractions that we were looking forward to seeing, we didn't visit the Ana Frank house and we didn't had the Heineken experience. 
We couldn't visit that museum because I wasn't old enough and my brothers wouldn't leave me alone in the street. The transportation was by train. We visited three provinces of Netherlands: Noord Holland, Utrecht, and Frisia. They were close in time. We stayed at a cousins' in Frisia. We didn't expect there to be a desert. It was huge. We were in Netherland for four days. We tried microwave waffles, played dards, ate a typical dessert and went to see a play of La pasion de Cristo. 
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