Mar 16 2009

Amsterdam 2008 Photos #9

Category: Amsterdam,Personal,PicturesChrisM @ 8:07 pm

For anyone new to the blog, this post is a continuation of photos taken in Amsterdam around my birthday in 2008. Irina booked a holiday there, and came with me again 🙂

Anyway, following the boat ride, we decided to try out one form of the cycle-powered taxi services available, to take us towards Vondel Park, and specifically the Blue Teahouse (Blauwe Theehuis ??? need to go and double check the spelling). As we zoomed along (I felt sorry for the man powering the machine when we had to stop and then start again at traffic lights on the occasional incline you’ll find, with my bulk on his machine), Ira spotted a most unusual modified bicycle, and we asked the owner if he could slow down for half a minute to enable us to grab a quick photo. In other cities, perhaps my Britishness would have prevent me from attempting such an intrusion in another person’s life, but this was Amsterdam, and I don’t think you ride something like this if you particularly want to be incognito 🙂

Amsterdam Holland Chris Merriman Irina

This was, I assume, some sort of bandstand in Vondelpark, and if you want to see more pictures, and are viewing this from the front page, you’ll need to click the link just below this photo 🙂
Amsterdam Holland Chris Merriman Irina
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Feb 27 2009

Amsterdam 2008 Photos #6

Category: Amsterdam,Personal,PicturesChrisM @ 3:53 pm

In an attempt to not scare off my readers who don’t particularly want to see baby posts all the time, I’ll try to continue the posts from before. Here we are back in Amsterdam 2008 again, when Ira and I went over for my birthday. This is the first boat trip we went on with the not for profit St Nicholas boat club organization. We later went on an evening tour, to get a feel for the city from the waterways whilst it was dark.
We had a great captain who took us around, and unlike the large plexiglass covered tourist boats, we were able to fit into much narrower canals, take a peek in areas not normally toured around and even… well, you’ll just have to wait until the next post for information on where we went that had us hitting the deck!

Amsterdam Holland Chris Merriman Irina

As ever, click the link below to see a lot more pictures – if I display them all on the front page, the site would take a long time for everyone to load up.

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