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Things to do in Amsterdam

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 Amsterdam Every year, to celebrate my birthday, I travel somewhere, in 2019 I went to Morocco , in 2020 to Israel and this year (2022) I decided to visit Amsterdam. It was a long time since I wanted to visit this city and there I have a friend that I wanted to see, so with these three points combined, I decided to visit Amsterdam in winter. I spent five days in Amsterdam and I visited the city plus some places outside like Zaanse Schans, Zandvoort and Haarlem. One important thing is that I forgot my camera so all the pictures were taken with my phone, maybe the quality is not high but I think they are anyway beautiful. Amsterdam is the capital and the most populous city of the Netherlands, with a population close to a million. It is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the north" due to the large number of canals which form a UNESCO world heritage site since 2010. Amsterdam was founded at the Amstel, the city's name derives from the Amstel dam, originating as a sm

Things to do in Kyoto Japan

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Kyoto It was the end of my trip to Japan, I was coming from Osaka and Kyoto was the last city before to come back to Europe.  The old capital of Japan Kyoto keeps the charm of a traditional Japanese city. I passed there for 4 days and I got in love with it, a treasure, something incredible every corner, my favourite city in Japan. I apologise for the long post, but I had a really nice time there and a lot of things to share and show. Here I will make a sort of list about things to do in Kyoto, or at least what I visited and my impressions. Kyoto imperial palace The first place that I visited in Kyoto was the imperial garden, it's a huge park around the imperial palace. That morning the park was empty, probably because earlier it was raining, so for me, the feeling was like getting lost in nature, more or less like the man in the picture. The Kyoto imperial palace is the former ruling palace of the Emperor of Japan, until 1868 the Imperial family was living there. Walk

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