May 08 2009
So, this is the last of the Amsterdam 2008 photos, with the 2007 batch to come sometime in the future.
Just love the red trainers visible below the hooped skirt in this picture
A shot of a tram, I think taken on the way back to the train station to leave 🙁
A split level train, used on heavy traffic routes I imagine. Probably doesn’t look too unusual to American readers, but all our UK trains are single deck, so this catches your eye the first time you use one.
Mar 31 2009
The Greenery In Holland
arrrrrrrrrrrrgh, lost all the text I originally entered for this post during the downtime my sites had. Will try and remember what I was thinking about roughly…
Two types of Greenery, the first are coming, the second are at the end of the post, click the Continue Reading or similar link…
1) Shot out the window of the bus to Keukenhof (having changed forms of transport at Leiden, with a stop off to Double A, a coffeeshop a little off the beaten track. Tulip fields abound in this area. May well do a separate post for Keukenhof itself, these photos are all from a collection I posted at a couple of Amsterdam Coffeeshop forums a while back.
Here we have a pretty water fountain/sculpture at the entrance to the gardens.
A shot of a man playing with his organ in Holland. Wonder if that will get me any search engine based traffic 😉
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #12”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #12
Mar 26 2009
Here we start off with Rembrandtsplein, then the start of our journey to Keukenhoff on the train, via Leiden.
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #11
Mar 17 2009
Yes, there should soon be some more photos of Anna, as I realise some friends and family members were expecting them a while back, sorry. I’m just attempting to clear down all the draft posts/bookmarked links that have been hanging around on various PCs…
The first three are some shots we took during the nocturnal boat trip we took. Remember I asked you to remember one photo from the daytime journey? No? Go back and read Amsterdam 2008 Photos #6 and you’ll find the one I mean.
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #10”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #10
Mar 16 2009
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 🙂
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 🙂
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #9”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #9
Mar 11 2009
This is the last of the afternoon boat trip photos, taken as we entered one of the red light districts. Obviously taking shots here can lead to security guys attempting to politely remind you that the canal is deep and dirty, and your camera wouldn’t last long it, so once I realised we weren’t just skirting the edges of the area, I put the camera away.
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #8
Mar 04 2009
Here we have a continuation of the photos from our first of two St Nicholas boat club trips. As we approached this low bridge, we all assumed we were just going to use the area preceeding it as a turning circle. A few eyebrows were raised as we carried on in a straight line, not seeming to slow down at all…
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #7”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #7
Feb 27 2009
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!
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.
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #6
Feb 17 2009
OK, so with these photos, it is still April 20 2008, we have arrived in Amsterdam (finally, after connecting flight problems from Kazakhstan the day before), we’ve met some very nice people (fellow Amsterdam forum members) who helped chill me out the day before, and even grouped together to get me a birthday present (I’ll give you one guess 😉 ), found our apartment, been for a walk, and it is now 4.20pm on 4/20 (US date style) , and we’re heading to the 420 cafe to meet up with fellow forum members.
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #5”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #5
Feb 13 2009
I am trying to post these in something resembling logical batches, so here we have what happened after we arrived. Having been given a birthday present at the airport, I managed to resist the urge to roll something immediately and took a few shots of the flat (see previous post) before it got too messed up.
Continue reading “Amsterdam 2008 Photos #4”
Comments Off on Amsterdam 2008 Photos #4
