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Chapter 183 The Houseboat
To understand a city, in addition to visiting its attractions, you must also integrate into the lives of the locals.If you want to know how people in Amsterdam live, you have to come to the canal once.

The river network in Amsterdam is densely covered with hundreds of criss-crossing waterways and bridges can be seen everywhere, most of which are stone arch bridges for people to walk on.Standing on the bridge and looking at the scenery, the boats in the water are moving at a leisurely pace, leaving ripples on the water surface.

"So this is the Venice of the North," Saoirse said.

The two stood in the middle of the arch bridge. The width of the river was about 40 meters, and boats were docked on the left and right.

These boats are not just means of transportation, but also their residences, and even offices.

Ye Kai saw another flower boat.

When he came to the city by car from the airport before, Ye Kai had a relationship with the flower boat.The length of the boat is about ten meters, the bottom is a normal white wooden board, and the deck is a transparent glass house.

Through the transparent glass, you can see colorful flowers, white, pink, magenta, purple, brown, yellow, orange, etc., without any extra decoration, it can also make the ship look beautiful.

"Walk."

Ye Kai happily took Saoirse down the arch bridge, chased after the flower boat and shouted: "Please, please stop, please..."

I don't know whether it was Ye Kai's shout or the arrival of the boat's destination, but the flower boat finally stopped at the edge of the canal.Parking a boat in this waterway is almost like parking on a road.

As soon as you approach the shore without a boat, you will stop.

A woman stepped out of the boat, about 50 years old, with brown hair and wearing off-white short-sleeves.

"Hello……"

Ye Kai greeted in Dutch.

"Hello, boy..." She saw Saoirse running over with Ye Kai, and asked, "Do you want to buy flowers?"

"Yes." Ye Kai looked at the beautiful flower boat and asked, "Can we go up and visit?"

"of course."

Since the boat is close to the river bank, it only takes one step to walk from the bank to the boat. There is no fishy smell on the boat, only a strong fragrance of flowers.The hull is cleaned frequently, except for a slight shake, it is no different from the exquisite cafes on the shore.

The glass door is open, and the scent of flowers is coming from inside.

Follow the owner of the flower boat into the glass house, and you will be greeted by the scent of tulips.

Tulips actually have a very light floral fragrance, but when a large number of tulips pile up together, the fragrance is naturally strong.

Even a large bale of grass will emit the aroma of green grass, which Ye Kai often calls the smell of nature.

There are three layers of wood boards on the left and right sides of the glass door, and a row of foam boxes are placed on each layer of wood boards, and the flowers are neatly inserted in the boxes.Mostly tulips, but also hyacinths, daffodils and more.

Saoirse put her hands on the board and bent over to smell the yellow tulips.

Ye Kai couldn't bear to disturb this scene, so he quietly took a photo and asked the boss, "How much is a bouquet of tulips like that?"

"I'll charge you five euros, she looks like an angel."

"Thank you for the compliment, I feel the same way."

He took out five euros and handed it to the boss, and Ye Kai took a lot of photos in the flower boat. When he was leaving, Ye Kai asked again: "Ma'am, do you know where you can see the most beautiful flower sea?"

"There is a park in the city."

"No no," Ye Kai shook his head, "There are too many tourists there, I want to know the attractions that are less crowded and only people who live in Amsterdam know, can you tell me?"

She shrugged and said, "Then we must go to Prescott Park. It is in a small town on the outskirts of Amsterdam. You can search it on the mobile phone map."

The Dutch conversation made Saoirse a little anxious.

You speak Dutch even though you know English, what are you talking behind my back?

She is completely convinced of Ye Kai's language talent. Learning Chinese for a few months has burned a lot of her brain cells, but Ye Kai can speak almost any language and has never encountered any difficulties in communication.

When Ye Kai came back with flowers in his arms, Saoirse asked, "What are you muttering about?"

"It's nothing, I'm asking her if there is any interesting place around Amsterdam, so I can take you there. Don't run around all day long, was that place just now a girl went?"

"cut."

The flower boat behind her still hasn't left, it seems that her docking point is somewhere.

The two returned to the bridge not far away. Saoirse had obviously forgotten that she didn't want to talk to Ye Kai a minute ago, and happily handed the phone to her boyfriend, saying, "Take some photos for me."

"Hold the flowers!" Ye Kai said.

The angle Ye Kai was looking for was of course nothing to say, if Ye Kai was doing paid portrait photography now, then he would definitely be the top portrait photographer when he debuted, hyping up the one that would be able to reach the top of the world in a short time.

One skill bonus can make you reach the top in this industry, and Ye Kai's photography skills have been improved twice.

Looking at her beautiful self in the photo, Saoirse is very satisfied.

The most convenient thing for two people to travel is that it is very suitable for taking pictures of each other. Ye Kai takes a lot of photos every time he travels, but he rarely has any photos of himself.It's not that Ye Kai doesn't want to take pictures of himself, but it's really inconvenient.

Ye Kai didn't want passers-by to take pictures of him.

He has never seen a man ask a passer-by to take a picture of him alone, and Ye Kai couldn't bear it.And it's embarrassing to pose in front of people.Today, however, this problem does not exist.

He adjusted all the parameters of the camera and handed it over to Saoirse.

Saoirse only needs to press the shutter after receiving Ye Kai's instructions, and a clear photo will come out.

Ye Kai sat sideways on the arch bridge, with a straight canal in the background, and various ships docked on both sides of the waterway, among which flower boats were the most conspicuous.On the shore is a European-style building with only two or three floors and red exterior walls.

There are many fragmented white clouds floating in the dark blue sky. The deep blue sky is reflected in the waterway, as well as the houses on the shore.

People live on the water, water enters the city, people and water depend on each other, and the scenery is natural. It is a "Venice of the North".

After taking the photo, Ye Kai discussed with Saoirse and decided to have dinner in the houseboat in the canal.

A houseboat is a house built inside a boat.

Ye Kai read the introduction on the Internet before, and thought that some people who could not afford a house on the shore, or to save some rental fees, chose to live on the boat, but it was obviously not the case.

Most of the people living in the houseboats are young people, not to mention the hundreds of waterways in Amsterdam, in the waterway in front of them, there are dozens of houseboats docked by the water.

Some of them are houseboats purely for people to live in, while others do business and open restaurants.

Because they are docked on the edge of the waterway, when walking from the shore, there are shops on the shore on the right, and a short guardrail on the left is another 'shop'.

According to Ye Kai's experience, even if the food is not good in a place with a lot of local people, the taste must not be too bad.

So the two of them found a houseboat with better business and went in.

(End of this chapter)