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Sarah McClurg and the Wildvines European Tour
... them for being so supportive. Anyway, after the show, I talked with the bar owner and he told me he wanted to book us for next year right then and there! Anyway, the band all shared a big group hug and gave big ups to Jordy for running such a great tour. We packed up, headed for a gourmet, late night McDonald’s drive through meal and got back to the house in time to pack and not really sleep very much.
I was sad ...
The last of Amsterdam
The original plan was to go over to Bibi's mum's place just outside of Amsterdam, and go and see a band called Kensington. Bibi does a lot of photography work for bands and has a lot of friends in the industry, so she had a free pass with a plus one. However, once I got up she told me the band had cancelled. So instead we decided to just head into town. We got the tram over to H&M because she wanted to return some stuff, and I wanted ...
Sinful City
So, Amsterdam is a really cool place. With legalized prostitution and marijuana use, as well as ever-present food carts selling waffles and fries and other gluttonous goodies, there are many sins to be committed here. While this was a day and a half ...
Goede avond uit Amsterdam!
... were their first ever guests, they did everything in their power to entertain us. We had free tour guides for the entire time we were in Amsterdam!
So what did Em and I do in Amsterdam? Go to the Van Gogh Museum and eat pancakes of course! What were you thinking? I learned Van Gogh was quite the prolific painter, and on a side note was rather insane. Also, I learned at the Heinekein Experience that the first shipment of Heinekein to the USA arrived 3 days after ...
Under way - Amsterdam to Cologne
Avalon offered a morning tour of Amsterdam - we skipped it, opting to sleep in instead.
Captain Peter backed our ship away from the Amsterdam dock at 1:30 in the afternoon and headed toward the Amsterdam/Rhine canal. We passed a three masted sailing ship and a Greenpeace boat, too.
The Amsterdam/Rhine Canal was a quiet ...