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Musical Chairs
... up a row. Then it looked like I'd have a seat between me and the Dutch lady who has the window seat. Great! As we started taxiing and the flight attendants were giving their spiel, I heard one say that there were some entirely free rows. As she walked past me, I grabbed her and asked if I could go lay down in one row. She said yes, after takeoff. Well, after we were airborne, things got crazy. Who wouldn't want a free row? As soon as the seatbelt sign was off, it was a ...
Tulips (part 2)
Woke to a rather damp day for sightseeing in Amsterdam, but not too bad and with brollies and rain jackets walked around for five hours to see everything we wanted to. Dangerous place Amsterdam. Bikes, trams and cars coming from all directions. Why do all Dutch men talk like Steve McLaren?
Strangest sight so far was when we encountered an odd chap who drives his boat around the canals steering with one hand and playing the French horn at the same time with the other. ...
Sooner or later
... life.
They also make me realise how little I have managed to write, how haphazardly I mentioned this or that, how many stories still to tell.
Meant to tell, and maybe I will yet. Not today, not tomorrow - life in Amsterdam is gradually taking over, lots to catch up with and it will soon be time to go to France.
I'm in transition I guess, an unsettled mind, a restless soul - but ...
The Last Night
... t get into much else. After the museum we headed to the Heinekin factory. The factory was one of the first opened by Heinekin and it was really awesome. With admission you got a free ball cap, 3 drinks, and a bracelet so that was already great. But inside its set up really well, it goes through the history of the company, it has rooms showing all the various commercials played by the company, the Heinekin horses, and impressions of the brewing and ...
Amsterdam!!
... you probably know lots more than me and are seeing something I don’t). There was a pretty awful Dutch band playing here as well, compounding the Van Gogh experience. We finished up here and went off to the Diamond Museum. I was unable to take any diamonds as souvenirs, sorry ladies. They were playing Diamonds are Forever (James Bond flick), so we watched that for a while.
We took a quick break from museums to take a couple tourist shots on the “I ...