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"  A few days into our AIFW trip, I had to ask my tour guide, Faustina: What&amp;#039;s with all the weird window displays? You see, the people who live in the canal houses, with their front windows right at street level, typically keep their curtains drawn because (as you can see right here), tourists are pretty nosy. But some people go an extra step, and decorate their window fronts with little knickknacks, including but not limited to Disney characters, wedding cake toppers, a row of ducks, etc.   Why? Well, fittingly, Faustina had no real answer, and neither did anyone else. Though she did seem fairly sure of the window below, featuring rude little boys. She told me that it was a way of the homeowners communicating that they didn&amp;#039;t want anyone parking their bike in front of their window. So maybe it&amp;#039;s like its own Dutch dialect, or maybe Amsterdam is just the quirkiest city on earth? \u2014NATALIE HORMILLA "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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