Sunday afternoon I biked around Jordaan with my roommate and a friend. Jordaan is said to be the most beautiful neighbourhood of Amsterdam because of its small houses, pedestrian streets and its peaceful environment; however, there’s no canal crossing it. This neighbourhood, whose name it’s said to derive from the French word “jardin” (so imagine how weird is Dutch pronunciation!), was built during the XVIth century as a worker class district, but nowadays is one of the most expensive to live in Amsterdam. Since it’s a small neighbourhood and its streets are quite narrow there’s no canal crossing it; actually, its borders are canals, being Prinsengracht the one that divides it from the old city center.

Prinsengracht is one of the most beautiful canals in the city and, of course, there’re some who live/float on it.

After that, we biked to the east, where we found this windmill, the second I see since I’m in Amsterdam, and then south to Rembrandtpark.
Let’s hope we will still enjoy sunny weekends!!!, because there’re still many places to discover in Amsterdam…

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