That's a country I'd like to visit...my dad went there when I was a kid...his "slides" made it look like a cool place.
Remember "slides"...I'm surprised they didn't take "slides" of the bloodstains, instead of polaroids.
LOL!
I've been there only one time. I quite liked it.
My opinion: You need to go slow there. You can't do it out of the standard tourist books. You need to walk around, get lost, and find your own tour.
They do have wonderful toilets. The best I've ever seen.
But it isn't any of that, nor any of all the flowers or the semi-legal marijuana or the red light district or any of the other things you read about. That's just the surface.
The Dutch are remarkable people. They carry around a lot of guilt about their failure to oppose Hitler during WWII. I could state that more intensely, but it's probably better that I do not.
If you do go there, you must practice your "drechts". In one way or an another, everything there is a either a drecht or a gracht. The canals certainly are, and so is everything else.
They will not want to hear you trying to make make those sounds, but you will need to do it anyway. It's a primal urge. It comes up from the throat.
I am lucky enough to know of a little town toward the south that is called Dordrecht. It's very old, and it has its own canals. I think I know someone there who would be willing to let me a room for a month or two. Take the dog, get a used bicycle...
You'd need to see it.