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About Holland with love
I traveled around Holland by electric trains - double-decker, yellow and blue. I always rode on the second floor: you climb up to it by a narrow staircase as soon as you enter the car. There are no "rabbits" here. The Dutch controllers are very friendly, smiling, laughing — in short, a passenger's dream. But the thing is that they cannot be calculated in any way — when the controller appears, there is no screaming crowd of stowaways running ahead of him. Dutch cities are similar to each other. Almost all the buildings are made of dark brown small bricks. They also line squares, sidewalks, and even highways in cities. The window frames are white. Roofs are tiled or metal. The peculiarity of Dutch cities is the canals. These self-made rivers help the "country below sea level" to survive and, moreover, to exist very well. Small humpback bridges or flat sliding bridges are thrown across the channels: they are lifted when a large boat passes.
There is always an ancient market square in the center of any Dutch city. There is a town hall, and nearby there is a Gothic cathedral and the richest houses built during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Cafes and souvenir shops are also located on the main square. Well, and some kind of monument. So, near the cathedral in Rotterdam there is a statue of Erasmus of Rotterdam, a brilliant thinker of the Renaissance. By the way, I didn't like Rotterdam too much. It is the second largest city in the country, and it even has a subway — unfortunately, it was almost completely destroyed during World War II. Today it is built up with "modern architecture" — glass skyscrapers, the windows reflect the sky with clouds and low-rise private houses, small and neat. There are also masterpieces of new architecture, such as a pencil—shaped house or a mini-neighborhood of lopsided cube houses. All this, of course, is great. But small Dutch towns are much prettier.
How beautiful are the narrow and noisy shopping streets of Haarlem, a city that originated in the 11th century! There is a very interesting railway station here — a building with stained glass windows and tile drawings. The majestic Cathedral of Sint-Bavo impresses with its calm beauty. Inside is the famous organ on which Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Liszt performed their works. Tiny Delft, where I also visited, is famous for the "Delft azure": this is a ceramic painting, reminiscent of gzhel. Along the three canals, narrow small houses and churches are located, one to one. A tram line, an old mill, modern buses that barely fit on bridges that are already eight centuries old. Castles have also been preserved in Holland. In my dreams, they seemed to me to be huge buildings up to the heavens, with many towers, with incredible passages and stairs, with dungeons and, of course, ghosts. It's kind of like Hogwarts from Harry Potter. And the castle, which was located an hour's drive from Schiphol, was dark brown, well, like all buildings in Holland, with four round towers, it was surrounded by a moat with water. There was a small, neat park opposite the castle gate. The guide led us through the halls open to tourists, terribly worried that someone might touch the displayed armor and swords. We went up a narrow spiral staircase to the second floor-there were only two of them in the castle. We went through a bedroom with a small bed, in those days people slept half sitting down, through a tall hall with paintings on the walls, through a dining room and a kitchen where examples of noble people's food were displayed, spices were especially expensive, they were brought from the East. The toilet, by the way, was located in a secluded niche right in the dining room — the feasts were long, and the food was delicious and varied. Yes, the castle disappointed me a little. Besides, I'm already a little tired of constantly traveling around the country. But it was still a bit of a pity to fly away, I had already managed to get used to the "brick" Dutch cities, bridges over canals and, of course, to double-decker trains! https://worldgoo.com/the-hidden-economy-of-cs2-skins-how-digital-collectibles-became-the-new-crypto