Biking in Amsterdam

Today was our second full day in Amsterdam, we started with a later breakfast followed by a short break before we headed out to start our day of exploring. We broke into two groups, one group went to pick up bikes for the bike tour of the north side the same side as our hostel. The other group went off on a walking tour of the city to see how transportation works and had evolved in the city. The biking groups first stop was a old ship building facility which has now been turned into a creative space for artists.

We continued our tour of exploring the city and we looked at different kinds of sustainable housing. We firstly looked at city blocks that are built with sustainable in mind. Than we looked at some floating houses that a built with sustainable as a core idea, lastly we looked another project to use land for creative projects. While we were biking we talked about how the North side is where all the new development is going in. We fished up and headed to get some much needed lunch.

The second half of the day we switched groups and the group that started the day with biking went on a walking tour of the city. We walked through central and took a tram to the end of the old city to start our walking tour. We walked around the city as our guild Alex told us about how transportation had evolved in the city. We fished our walking tour at the museum square where there are some of the major museums is Amsterdam.

We fished our day with free time and dinner with the other group. After dinner everyone took the tram back out to do some shopping in the city. For dinner some groups got Korean barbecue while other groups got pizza. We than headed back to the hostel to finish a good day off with a few games of pool.

-Jackson Gammack