I’ve just returned from Amsterdam and I can’t help sharing my impressions of this trip with you. First of all, this city is amazing! The buildings though being dull and grey are majestic and grandiose! Some people would say that this is a dull city but I strongly disagree! The “falling” buildings in the historical center of Amsterdam are really magnificient and when you appear on the Blood street you feel this energetics of the past… terrifying but great! What has really stricken me is that there are few cars there! Just bikes. Thousands of bikes. There is no other city in Europe where you can find so many bikes in the streets and people of different socials statuses are riding them! Top managers wearing Gucci suits and ties do not ride a Lexus or Mercedes - they prefer riding their bicycles. To be modest is highly appreciated in Holland and people do not really care what kind of bike they are riding but usually all the citizens of Amsterdam have at least two bikes: one bike that can even be rusty they use riding to work and there is one more bicycle that is saved for special occasions and they use it on holidays, on weekends and etc. The latter is a brand new bike with all the modern technologies.

Why can’t we take their model of transport development? Why should we rush for buying a brand new car instead of taking care about the environment and ecology and buying a brand new bike?