Hi Katie. Hello, how are you? Yeah, I'm doing fine. Although my city, Amsterdam, is suddenly becoming a little less quiet and there are even some tourists here.

Ooh, dragging their weirly suitcases along the floor.

It's caused quite a reaction from the locals.

We all got quite used to having the city to ourselves and it being a bit of a nice ghost town.

Apparently it's still only like 10% of normal numbers, but that's enough.

And the locals are revolting.

27,000 of them have signed a petition saying that they want to limit tourist numbers to 12 million a year.

Wow.

It's currently around 18 million.

And there might actually be a referendum about it.

That's very exciting.

I mean, you've always been a tourist hating city, Amsterdam.

But it's nice that you're finally putting your money where your mouths are.

It's true, although I didn't sign the petition because I'm worried that Amsterdam will

like turn into a luxury tourist destination because everything

will just get more expensive.

Then I won't be able to afford to go to the restaurants either if they're just restaurants

for rich tourists.

So I think we local Amsterdamers need to be careful about what we wish for.

In Paris, everyone was saying, oh, things are going to get so much tidier, now the tourists

have left. And apparently, Parisians have been realizing that, oh, wait, they're actually

responsible for themselves for, like, loads of the littering. It's a grubby town. Although

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