To get to know a city, in addition to visiting its attractions, you have to immerse yourself in the lives of the locals. If you want to know how people live in Amsterdam, you have to visit the canals.

Amsterdam is a city with a network of rivers, hundreds of waterways, and bridges, most of which are stone arches for human walking. Standing on the bridge and looking at the scenery, the boats in the water are moving slowly, leaving ripples on the water.

"It turns out that this is the Venice of the North. Saoirse said.

The two stood in the middle of the arched bridge, which was about forty meters wide, and there were boats docked on the left and right.

These ships are not just a means of transportation, they are also where they live, and even offices.

Ye Kai saw another flower boat.

When he came to the city by car from the airport before, Ye Kai had a relationship with the flower boat. The length of the boat is about ten meters, and the bottom is a normal white plank, and on the deck is a transparent glass house.

Colorful flowers, white, pink, magenta, purple, brown, yellow, orange, etc., can be seen through the transparent glass, and the ship can be made beautiful without any superfluous decorations.

"Let's go. ”

Ye Kai walked down the arch bridge with Ye Kai with great interest, chasing the flower boat and shouting: "Please, please stop, please......"

I don't know if it was Ye Kai's shout or the destination of the boat, the flower boat finally stopped at the edge of the canal. Parking a boat in this waterway is almost like parking on a road.

As soon as you lean on the waterfront where there is no boat, it stops.

Stepping from the boat stepped a woman, forty or fifty years old, with brown hair and wearing off-white short sleeves.

"Hello ......"

Ye Kai greeted in Dutch.

"Hello, young man......" She saw Saoirse running over with Ye Kai and asked, "Do you want to buy flowers?"

"Yes. Ye Kai looked at the beautiful flower boat and asked, "Can you let us go up and visit?"

"Of course. ”

Since the boat is against the riverbank, you can walk from the shore to the boat with just one step, and there is no fishy smell on the boat, only a strong floral fragrance. The hull of the ship is often cleaned, except for a slight shaking, and the exquisite café on the shore is not far behind.

The glass door is open, and the scent of flowers comes out of it.

Follow the owner of the flower boat into the glass house, and you will be greeted by the scent of tulips.

Tulips are actually very light floral, but a large number of tulips are piled up together, and the fragrance emitted is naturally rich.

Even a large bundle of grass gives off the aroma of grass, and Ye Kai often calls this taste the taste of nature.

There are three layers of wooden planks on the left and right sides of the glass door, and on each layer of wood are placed a row of foam boxes, and the flowers are neatly inserted in the boxes. Mostly tulips, but also hyacinths, daffodils, and more.

Saoirse put her hands on the planks and bent down to sniff the yellow tulips.

Ye Kai couldn't bear to disturb this scene, quietly took a photo, and asked the boss: "How much is a bouquet of tulips like that?"

"I'll charge you five euros, she's like an angel. ”

"Thank you for the compliment, I feel the same way. ”

took out five euros and handed it to the boss, Ye Kai took a lot of photos in the flower boat, and when he left, Ye Kai asked again: "Madam, do you know where you can see the most beautiful sea of flowers nearby?"

"There is a park in the city. ”

"No, no," Ye Kai shook his head, "There are too many tourists there, I want to know the attractions that are less crowded and only known to people who live in Amsterdam, can you tell me?"

"Then you have to go to Prescott Park, a small town on the outskirts of Amsterdam that can be searched on a map on your phone," she shrugged. ”

The Dutch conversation made Saoirse a little anxious.

Obviously people know English, and you still speak Dutch, what are you talking about behind my back?

He was completely convinced of Ye Kai's language talent, and his few months of learning Chinese made her burn a lot of brain cells, but Ye Kai knew almost any language and never encountered any problems in communication.

When Ye Kai came back with the flowers, Saoirse asked, "What are you muttering over there?"

"It's nothing, I'm asking her if there's anything to do around Amsterdam to take you there." Don't run around all day long, was that place a girl went to just now?"

"Cut. ”

The flower boat behind her still hasn't left, and it seems that where is her docking point.

The two returned to the bridge not far away, Saoirse forgot the previous unpleasantness, happily handed over the phone to Ye Kai, and said, "Help me take a few photos." ”

"Take the flowers!" Ye Kai said.

Ye Kai naturally has nothing to say about the angle he is looking for, if Ye Kai is now doing paid portrait photography, then he will definitely debut as the top portrait photographer, and hype it up to the top international level in a short time.

A skill plus achievement can make you reach the top in this industry, and Ye Kai's photography skills have been improved twice.

Looking at her beautiful self in the photo, Saoirse was satisfied.

The most convenient thing for two people to travel is that it is very suitable for taking pictures of each other, Ye Kai takes a lot of photos every time he travels, but rarely has his own photos. It's not that Ye Kai doesn't want to shoot himself, but it's really inconvenient.

Ye Kai didn't want passers-by to take pictures of him.

He hadn't seen a man ask a passerby to shoot him alone, and Ye Kai couldn't wipe his face. And you have to pose in front of people, which is embarrassing. This is no longer the case.

He adjusted all the parameters of the camera and handed it to Saoirse.

Saoirse only needed to press the shutter after getting Ye Kai's instructions, and a clear photo came out.

Ye Kai sat sideways on the arched bridge, with a straight canal in the background, and various boats docked on both sides of the waterway, among which the flower boat was the most conspicuous. On the shore are European-style buildings with only two or three floors.

The deep blue sky was filled with many fragments of white clouds, and the waterways reflected the deep blue sky and the houses on the shore.

People live on the water, the water enters the city, the people and the water depend on each other, the scenery is natural, and it is a good 'Venice of the North'.

After taking the photo, Ye Kai discussed with Saoirse and decided to have dinner in a houseboat in the canal.

Houseboats are those that are built in boats.

Ye Kai read the introduction on the Internet before, and thought that it was some people who couldn't afford to buy a house on the shore, or chose to live on a boat in order to save some rental costs, but obviously this is not the case.

Most of the houseboats are young people, not to mention the hundreds of waterways in the whole of Amsterdam, and in the waterway in front of them, there are dozens of houseboats docked at the water's edge.

Some of them are houseboats for people, and some of them are for business and open restaurants.

Because they are anchored at the edge of the waterway, and when they walk from the shore there is a shop on the shore, and on the left there is a low guardrail, which is another 'shop'.

According to Ye Kai's experience, even if a place with a lot of local people is not delicious, the taste must not be too bad.

So the two of them found a houseboat with a good business and went in.