Until I was seven I lived in Amsterdam, and any time we traveled out of the city, I used to believe we were going to the Netherlands, not knowing that Amsterdam was actually in the Netherlands. It's our national capital, actually.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that Amsterdam was the world capital of hamsters!— CountryWay
- I used to believe Amsterdam was a dam made out of hamsters.Anon
- When I first heard of Amsterdam I thought it was "Hamster's Den"— Bootlebat
- I used to think that people from the Netherlands spoke NethishAnon
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona