Netherlands
Amsterdam dozes like Sleeping Beauty, empty and slowed down, like almost all major cities in Europe during the time of the Covid.
Rare cyclists pass the thoughtful air on the cobbled alleys which skirt the canals with pale waters, in contrast to the thousands of bicycles in a hurry which usually speed from one end of the city to the other.
In the once crowded streets of the old center, the diggers who repair the road have, for once, free rein.
Almost all the shops are closed apart from the food shops, wine shops, a few hairdressers and rare shoe and clothing shops, giving the town an air both serene and strangely ghostly.
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