Hotel Ibis Amsterdam Westcorner

... as many <br>vodka shots as we wanted. At around 9:30pm tons of people started to <br>show up including heps of girls. At around 10pm we were getting ready <br>to leave the first bar and we had a big group. I was feeling good <br>already and we still had 4 bars to go. At the second bar we got a free <br>drink as well. The second bar was more like a lounge and we were not <br>here for too long, we had just enough time to finish our ...

... some of the canals which are a feature of Amsterdam's landscape. The 17 metre canal boat was not ideally suited for the revelry that our group intended, as the original craft which had been booked was hijacked by another Kumuka tour, but we did our best to adapt to the situation, before the sensible ones returned to their army barracks, and the younger ones adjourned to a bar somewhere. Tomorrow is the last day of the tour, which finishes in Paris.

... bikes like this in town yet, and even felt kind of silly for bringing my biking shorts! So, of course I wanted to meet her. It turned out that she had gotten her bike and into being a roadie when she briefly lived in Portland. She even had a River City Bikes water bottle. So, we were then friends. She showed me how to get out of town, and we biked together for about an hour, her cruising along at a moderate pace, and me, pedaling as fast as I ...

... someone! They had the rack and some nasty pyramid thing that they would put you on then attach weights to your legs. They even hand one device which held you upside down while 2 men sawed you in half from the groin down...nice! After that we headed off to the Heineken brewery for a tour. Pretty cool, and we also got 3 beers included! As we walked out we got given a flyer to a bar crawl on in town that night so we headed back into town, spent a few hours ...

... called the banana show. The stripper pulled me and Jason onto the stage and we had to eat a banana. Not going into specifics. But it was a great time. On the way back to the hotel we hopped off the tram and got some take-out from Wok to Walk, it was some kick ass Chinese food. So that's Amsterdam. Beautiful city, beautiful weather, very relaxing and laid back. Definitely want to come back here again. Off to catch the train to Paris now...

... as Earl King, Irma Thomas, Aaron Neville, Ernie K-Doe and many more. Timothea cut her first single, "Teenage Prayer," at 14, and a couple of marriages, a trip to the West coast and two sons came along before she was 18 years old. In the 1980s Timothea looked up her old friend Earl King, who took the time to help her get started again. She released two singles written by Earl King before joining up with the late Johnny ...