A City in Use

                                         

                Meet Shelley From Guildford, England

I saw Shelley sitting at the bar in the Bulldog at Leidse Plein, she was sitting all alone with a troubled look on her face while rolling then smoking one joint after another.

She was on her last day of a three day trip. She had come to use the city, she needed to get anyway from life for a while.

A wife and a mother to a thirteen year old daughter, she works at a YMCA helping the homeless and needy. For kicks and extra money she does nude modeling for fine art classes, biker magazines and tattoo magazines. She has fourteen tattoos including a very cool one on her hip she showed me which is actually two hundred little ones that come together, she was very proud of that one as she had had it done here in Amsterdam many years ago. It was paid for by the money she earned working as a strip O gram!

Shelley is a lovely human being, she gives so much of herself to the people around her that it leaves her drained and feeling down and thats why she comes to the city a couple times a year. So heres to heeling and recharging in the beautiful city that is Amsterdam.