First Article for Roasting

Since we're spending these couple weeks working on our pieces about Amsterdam, I figured a good article to find would be on the same place.

After some google searching, I came about this article – 'EIGHTEEN HOURS, NINE STREETS AND NEW BOOTS' – by Colleen Friesen.

This article definitely gives the feel of two women shopping and goggling at Amsterdam. That was nice, but I didn't find much else about the article I enjoyed.

She starts out with this interesting concept of observing a culture: comparative to that of the African culture she had been previously observing. This caught my attention right away, but the comparisons unfortunately ended there. However, my main issue with the piece was the sudden involvement of this unidentified man. The dialog didn't have a lot to add to the piece except to guide the people from place to place, leaving the reader behind. What do you guys think?