The Quentin Amsterdam

... out
the whole history of heineken. The tour showed you around the brewery
and had a little ride where you experience how their beer is made. At
the end of the tour you get 2 half pints of heineken in their bar.. In
the bar I met a guy and his girlfriend from Rome. I had a great talk
with them about Vancouver and the olympics as well as when I was in
Rome. He was in Amsterdam for his holidays and only for the ...

... excitement as we saw a draw bridge go up in the air.


Thursday 19th July, Day 187

Amsterdam

Time to go home. We had a late flight which meant we had another day to relax in Amsterdam. The day ended with beers on the canal, which was nowhere near as nice as beers on the Venice canal, but with beers and a canal you can’t go wrong.
The flight was with Easyjet who are nowhere near as scummy as Ryan Air, so we got home ok. We were ...

... leerzaam. Volgens mijn leraar (Santiago) kan ik eigenlijk een niveau hoger, maar ik vind dit wel prettig, want de grammatica is zo ver weggezakt dat een beetje herhaling geen kwaad kan. Santi vertelt veel over zijn land en heeft ook veel kritiek, maar dit maakt de lessen wel interessant, want je leert niet alleen de taal maar ook veel wat cultuur betreft.
Dit weekend gaan we met zīn 4-en naar Alausi en naar Baņos. Vrijdag met de trein een stukje īNariz del Diablo ...

... me wonder whether I would have already spent more money by my first moments in Amsterdam than I had in one week in Paris, not to mention one month in Israel--or more.

Canals and bridges run throughout this downtown area, and I remember a Dutch kid at the Weizmann telling me about the wonders of these artificial islands. People could walk everywhere, while many biked along the paths which ran alongside the roads throughout. I noticed immediately that the bikes speeding by ...

... it as a choreographed stage production. The similarities with the school production of "Hello Dolly", with which I was more familiar, were not easy to see, but there is no doubt the performers were exceptionally fit, and largely, well choreographed, and, well, large. Given that we had front row seats, we spent much of our time trying to avoid the gaze of the performers, in case, as they regularly did, they invited audience participation. In terms of the content ...

... these. Have to save some things for the field trip I will take with my mom some day! Instead, at the windmill park, I went to the little cheese making house, ate a ton of various gouda cheese samples (gouda must be such an easy cheese to make well, it is just so basic and salty/processed tasting...), and then went to the mini wooden shoe museum. At both of these places there were a ton of Japanese tourists who were there on tour buses. I ...

... girls literally in windows with red lights in them! The guys out of 'curiousity' asked a few girls how much it was and they said "50 Euro Suck n ****." Hmm.. interesting. There was rumours a few guys disappeared later on, but noone knows the truth! ha. The sex show was exactly that! It was an 'optional extra' that was not included in the brochures. I wonder why?! It was this little dark theatre like a small movie theatre and there was a ...

... we've been the transportation in Amsterdam has been the most confusing. We jumped a couple trams before we got it right and ended up where we needed to be. The Red Light District was pretty cool. Lots of sex shops and places where people buy drugs. We could smell marijuana at times. We went and saw a live sex show at the Moulin Rouge. I've never even been to a strip club before and there I was at a live sex show! One of the shows ...

... hopefully one day will take the place of 'Hold It.'" So I went into my little garage studio and I started picking out a song, and eventually a song came out. I was playing with Art Neville at a club called the Avenue in the French Quarter six nights a week. And we were opening up with "Hold It" also, so I introduced a song, a melody, to George [Porter], Art [Neville] and Zig [Modeliste] and we started playing it to open up ...