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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
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Korea-Japan 7th part Osaka

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Osaka To be honest, I didn't enjoy this city, probably because I was really tired, it was almost a month that I was travelling, and I was looking forward to see Kyoto, which everyone said was amazing. Doesn't mean that Osaka didn't give me the opportunity to know nice people, visit beautiful places and learn something. Imperial castle  School trip The first thing I visited in Osaka was the castle; it was really crowded, probably because it was a Saturday. There was foreign and Japanese tourists, but also students: I like to photograph Japanese students because of the uniforms, and because they are tidy. Nel blu dipinto di blu The Osaka Castle is an important symbol in Japan: it was built in 1583 by  the shogun  Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified the country. But during the civil war of 1615 it burnt down. It was then rebuilt during the reign of the Tokugawa clan (1603 - 1867). The most of the castle's structures burnt down again in 1868 due to an
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Location: Budapest, Ungheria
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