AMSTERDAM

I visited this beautiful city long ago in 1979 during a travel by car in the company of my girl friend from Trieste, my home city to Paris. AMSTERDAM, the capital of the Netherlandsy which is the Venice of the North with its many canals, the buildings with narrow facades because the value depends on the front on the canals, consequently being narrow, they have very steep stairs inside. We are staying in a hotel managed by an Indonesian and first when we were looking for a misunderstanding we ended up in a... hourly hotel for gays, I only realized it after seeing the very small room with bed, sink and that's it. Going down I noticed some photos of half-naked men on the walls and at the reception a guy all dressed in black leather! In Amsterdam we visited the exciting attic where Anne Frank lived, the Van Gogh museum with its beautiful paintings, the Rijksmuseum with Rembrandt's paintings and we also went to visit a diamond cutter's house, the Coster if I remember correctly. Amsterdam is a beautiful city, today it is the European city where many young people would like to move, perhaps for the freedom granted to smoking marijuana? I remember that in the Damplatz in the center I saw a drug addict with a syringe injected who was having a crisis and within a couple of minutes he was being loaded onto an ambulance which arrived early. We also went to the red light district, I remember that there was a club called CASA ROSSO and it was run by Italians who got a discount to enter. On the ground floor there were streap tease shows of very sexy girls of various races, on the second they showed a porn film and on the third there was live sex with various couples on stage going at it. Wow, and to think that in those days in Italy we almost didn't know what pornography and hardcore shows were.

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