Although I have been visiting Amsterdam for about thirty years, I have only been living here (part time) for the last six months. Previously, I was familiar with a number of places, and I had a general idea about the layout of the city; but only since I have been riding around town on my bicycle do I really know how those places relate to one another. Streets look different if you know where they are going. And in going from here to there, I sometimes stumble upon places I have known in the past of which I never even wondered where they were.
