Jun 29 2009
This is the last of the Amsterdam Trip 2007 photos featuring the flat. Why so many? Because somehow I forgot to take a lot of the city itself and the various coffeeshops we went into. The 2008 trip with Irina was a little more successful in terms of encompassing more of a feel for the city through the medium of photography.
The next three are the view out the window onto the street and river below.
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Jun 29 2009
More of the flat in Amsterdam…
Here we had just started to unpack the essentials…
The 1st flight of three or four steep stairs leading to exit to the flat
The last flight, leading up into the living room. (Seriously, if you have a bad back or dislike navigating precarious situations when drunk or severely relaxed, I’d not recommend taking this flat, as it occupies the top two floors of the building.
The kitchen
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Jun 28 2009
Following on from post #2 in this Amsterdam Trip (2007) series, here we have a few more shots in and around the flat we rented, overlooking the river… Amstel 🙂
The view from the kitchen out onto the balcony
Looking up from the balcony to the top floor of the apartment, with the main bedroom and bathroom
A shot of the living room
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Jun 23 2009
So, continuing the series of Amsterdam 2007 photos, here is the next batch…
We took a few snapshots of the apartment itself. Not exactly in tip top condition – fridge door disconnected from the cupboard door, broken slats on the camp beds, TV not working properly, but it was cheap, relatively clean, and central to the coffeeshops we were interested in.
This is Alex and me at the dining table
Next we have the bathroom
Alex on the apartment’s balcony
Finally, click below to see the rest of this post – a Google map embed of where the apartment is, roughly.
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Jun 20 2009
OK, the 2008 Amsterdam picture series was started back on 10th February this year, just 11 days before Anna was born. Here, finally are the 2007 photos, from my previous trip to Amsterdam. This time Irina did not come, but AlexC and ChrisD met up with me there, and we shared an apartment for four days (21/9/2007 – 24/9/2007).
I’ve checked Lemming was fine with his mug up in public in the 2008 series of pictures, and I’ve blurred anyone else who looked like they might want it. Though in these 2007 pictures, I’m only aware of one person from the forums being involved.
21st April
Stix near our apartment. 1st visit I think of the trip. We have our friend Chris on the left, AlexC on the right, me hiding behind, and a random local behind:) I’ve checked, and any photos presented on the front page, as opposed to behind a ‘click here to read more’ type link, will not be displaying any Dutch herbs, as I don’t want to put off advertisers.
The two below are the scene outside the entrance to our apartment. It belonged to Hotel Amstelzicht, just down the road. Yes, I got a bit distracted in Photoshop when I returned, and had a go at making these two shots a little different to the normal point’n’click affairs presented on this blog.
Right, thats your lot for now, I’ve no idea whether these posts will total a series of 13 again, I need to try and keep load times down on the front page for this blog, as Bluehost seem to be having another go-slow on my server 🙁
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Jun 14 2009
Thanks to MattG for the heads up on Facebook’s new policy… I’ve just grabbed http://www.facebook.com/chris.merriman before any of the other Chris Merrimans on Facebook noticed 🙂
If you want to secure yours, pop along to http://www.facebook.com/username and select your preferred format. Props to Richard McLaughlin for reporting that facebook are using a similar policy to GMail’s approach to user names – you can drop the full stop between your first and last name if you like, or even play around with extra ones – ie http://www.facebook.com/c.h.r.i.s.m.e.r.r.i.m.a.n is the same as http://www.facebook.com/chrismerriman which is the same as http://www.facebook.com/chris.merriman
Anyway, I’m going to run a quick test on a new version of WP Security Scan now, and probably head to bed, hope everyone is well.
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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 😉
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Mar 26 2009
Here we start off with Rembrandtsplein, then the start of our journey to Keukenhoff on the train, via Leiden.
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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.
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