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Panorama of the great city, Amsterdam. This sprawling city entered my
blood and I felt more at home there in the 10 days spent than in more
than three months in Buenos Aires! It was as if there was an instinctive
understanding of the city and its layout. You can see the "circles" formed
by the canals, lined with trees.
More
info: In the course of the 17th century the famous crescent shape of the Amsterdam
city centre was designed and realised resulting in the unique ring of
canals. A number of narrow streets and canals, fanning out from the
centre of the crescent, traversed the network of concentric
semi-circular canals. On the outskirts of the city centre, the canals
ended in squares, where the city gates were located. The squares were
used as parking places, since vehicles were not always allowed into the
city itself.
(Postcard: Unfortunately no info about the photographer)
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KIBANA-SHAKUNAGE (Rhododendron aureum): One of the Alpine Rhododendrons.
Its pale-yellow color is expressed in both the Japanese and the Latin name
(image).
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