Garbage Town Amsterdam

It has been a while since I last visited Amsterdam. First time was with my best friend Ahmet in 2003 and the last time should have been with my RWTH Aachen buddy Erman in 2004 while we were visiting The Hague Jazz Festival. There are two very interesting anectodes from this visit as well but this is not the purpose of this post, so I will spare them for the future.

The topic of this post is the shocking condition of the beautiful city Amsterdam and how it got to this situation... There are garbage bags everywhere and they are untidy and busted. It is really unbelievable, how bad it looks.

I came to Amsterdam today with a 5-hours delayed flight, due to the ash clouds blocking the Schiphol Airport air traffic. However, the streets of the city are much worse than its air pollution.

You can see similar views on all over the city and as a visitor/tourist it gave me a very bad impression. I hope there is, at least, a good reason for this mess. Even if so, they have to find a very good and quick solution. Because my friends, it smells much worse than it looks!

Cheers...