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Amsterdam and the Wrath of God | 24 comments (24 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Amsterdam and the Wrath of God (none / 1)
Your downtown might be the size of Amsterdam.

I may have that all wrong--I'm trying to check the scales...

Amsterdam central, where there are few or no cars, is about forty minutes across on foot, the part in the top of this pic.

Ach...

My town by comparison:

And here's Barcelona:

Hey, map blogging!

Amsterdam, 1544 (?)



Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Mon Jan 22nd, 2007 at 09:58:29 AM EST
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Re: Amsterdam and the Wrath of God (none / 1)
The part with almost no cars is the old town quartet...

So it is roughly the same... with the difference that the streets are very small is crowded with tourists!!!!

all the time...

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Mon Jan 22nd, 2007 at 10:06:03 AM EST
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Amsterdam and the Wrath of God | 24 comments (24 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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