“It’s better that way, don’t you think? » Fietje, a forty-year resident of Oudezijds Voorburgwal in the heart of Amsterdam’s red-light district, takes a breath as she points to several clusters of tourists. But how much longer? “Oh, wait for the weekend. there are only flocks of young people who drink, smoke and come to look at prostitutes. All night. I put plants on the steps of the stairs so that they don’t come and sit here. And then, the Asian tourists haven’t come back yet.”, he adds. A few steps away, across a canal, passes the “smokeboat”, a small riverboat that you sail on while smoking cannabis. “These are usually the kind of visitors we wish we didn’t have anymore. People who consume the city instead of visiting it. Do you know pisup tours? asks Femke Halsema…
Source: Le Figaro
