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Continuing our day trip to Vollendam and Marken from Alice's diary

"Caught the ferry over to Marken, which is another little fishing village but much smaller then Volendam......................... When we walked on board the ferry we met two other couples who had been on the River Empress with us.  It was the lady that is going to laugh...

Hey all!  This week was super busy!!!  We started classes on Monday, and all week I have been going to classes and trying to get back into the groove of school after having four months of summer!  My classes so far seem really good!  My favorite is History of Western Art I: Renaissance and Baroque.  The professor is awesome and he is the curator...

So the flight to Amsterdam wasnt a pleasant experiece. . . .maybe there is a tiny lesson there. dont drink and fly hangovers dont do well in planes. Getting of the plane was fantastic, a feeling similar to escaping from jail id imagine. So we followed the signs to the baggage collection area and picked up our bags no worries. My bogan hat made m...

Brrrrr, its cold here. After the heat of Egypt it's nice to be wearing jackets and jeans again. We're just outside Amsterdam now staying with some more friends, Steve and Karin. They live about 30 minutes from the city. The closest centre is Hilversom to the south of Amsterdam, it has a village atmosphere, with narrow streets lined with trees an...

Hello everyone!! Thanks for the two parents and Aaron who have commented on our blog as we do like hearing from home (one week down ... eight to go!) We are now in Amsterdam and man is it hectic!!! there is cars trams bikes and motorbikes coming left right and centre and that doesnt even include the people everywhere!! you have to have eyes in t...

(Daniel Stalpertstraat, Amsterdam, November 11, 2006)-Whew! Now that the elections are over and control of Congress has been wrested from the thugs and brownshirts of the right wing, maybe we can breathe a short sigh of relief. After following the last three elections from Amsterdam with fear and trembling, especially the Bush putsch in 2000 whi...

(Daniel Stalpertstraat, Amsterdam, October 31, 2006)-I'm writing this morning from my apartment in the Pijp because I've been confined to quarters with a bad case of the intestinal flu, venturing out yesterday only to make an episode of my radio show at The Dolphins and scurrying back to bed immediately thereafter. I watch my health pretty caref...

(Cannabis College > 420 Café > The Dolphins > Daniel Stalpertstraat 74, Amsterdam, October 22-23, 2006)-This has been a trying week for the itinerant bard, but everything looks a lot better at the end than it did at the beginning-everything except the resumption of my little cash flow, which is still a week or so off. There was going to...

So before I knew it, it was already my final full day in the Dutch countryside. Up fairly early, fed, and out. The first destination for Jan and I was the region of the famous "bridge too far" in arnhem, or today, known as the "Frost Bridge" after the British commander who valliantly fought to defend it. The bridge was quite nice, but the nearby...

Libra Nation (420 Café, Amsterdam, October 10, 2006)-It's October 10th, the birthday of Thelonious Monk, a Holy Day of Obligation in this writer's faith and let's start off this report with a birthday poem from the book of monk: #9 "off minor" ("what now") for nkenge zola monk's birth certificate calls him `thelius' & puts him here on earth in 1...