Postscript: Bernie: April 3, 2011
Note: To follow our trip to Amsterdam from beginning to end, choose The plans are made from the index at right.
You can imagine our shock! A whole city rated XXX! Emblazoned on flags, mugs, t-shirts. Everywhere we turned there was that XXX staring at us!
But as we walked around we saw the XXX on things like churches, signs, barriers and all sorts of other things! So how could this be?
Did it have something to do with the XXX sex life that Amsterdam is famous for?
Is there that much XXXing going on here that they had to celebrate it with a flag?
What rubes we were!
"...The XXX symbol is three St. Andrew’s Crosses in white on a black stripe on a red background. On the flag they appear horizontally, but most other places they appear vertically. St. Andrew was a fisherman who lived in the 1st Century AD and was said to have been crucified on an X-shaped cross. The Amsterdam XXX symbol dates back to the year 1505 when the city was a fisherman’s town, so the coat of arms was established as the symbol for the city itself and it also flew as a flag on all ships registered in Amsterdam..."
What fun we had!
And XXX *is* for kissing too!
Next: Reflecting on Vinny [READ NEXT AMSTERDAM POST]
Note: To follow our trip to Amsterdam from beginning to end, choose The plans are made from the index at right.
You can imagine our shock! A whole city rated XXX! Emblazoned on flags, mugs, t-shirts. Everywhere we turned there was that XXX staring at us!
But as we walked around we saw the XXX on things like churches, signs, barriers and all sorts of other things! So how could this be?
Did it have something to do with the XXX sex life that Amsterdam is famous for?
Is there that much XXXing going on here that they had to celebrate it with a flag?
What rubes we were!
"...The XXX symbol is three St. Andrew’s Crosses in white on a black stripe on a red background. On the flag they appear horizontally, but most other places they appear vertically. St. Andrew was a fisherman who lived in the 1st Century AD and was said to have been crucified on an X-shaped cross. The Amsterdam XXX symbol dates back to the year 1505 when the city was a fisherman’s town, so the coat of arms was established as the symbol for the city itself and it also flew as a flag on all ships registered in Amsterdam..."
What fun we had!
And XXX *is* for kissing too!
Next: Reflecting on Vinny [READ NEXT AMSTERDAM POST]
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