in two films in one of the world s first bicycle perking garage was built at the city s central rail station shaun cody has been offering individual sightseeing tours of the capital with his company joyride tours for the past seven years naturally by bike for meaning when the most interesting things about amsterdam isn t just the beautiful city but it s also the citizens that make up the city it s people from all over the world and it actually just beat out new york as having the most variety of nationalities in any city in the world it s also a very small city so i find it quite enjoyable it s only a one point six million with the suburbs maybe a hundred thousand the city center so you get this international city feel but you re in a very small liveable enjoyable city. and many of cody s tours start off it down square at the birthplace of amsterdam and the thirteenth century local fisherman