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| This is a parking garage for bikes...it holds 2,500, and there are bikes everywher |
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| This is a parking garage for bikes...it holds 2,500, and there are bikes everywher |
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| Floating Chinese restaurant |
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| There are 2,500 houseboats in Amsterdam's canals (they stricty limit the number) |
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| The base of a tower. I couldn't get it all in in one photo, and with my head not being able to move up or down (or sideways) it made it a bit difficul |
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| Here's the rest of it |
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| I really had to do a lot of adjusting to be able to see some of these |
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| You'll note most of the buildings are very narrow. There was a law regulating width a long time ago. Only the wealthy could have wider houses |
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| Bridge adornment. I like it. |
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| Hey, more bicycles |
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| A houseboat with a floating garden. Please ignore the reflection from my window. |
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| Nearing the Ann Frank house |
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| Lines of people and they aren't even close to the house yet |
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| Sorry, I'm not sure which of these two house was Anne Frank's |
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| A wealthier house, obvious from both decoration and width. |
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| Looking into a houseboat's windows |
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| See the open window on the 3rd floor? Someone is moving in or out. Almost every building has hoists (barely visible here, unfortunately) to lift furniture |
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| No idea what it is...a church, I'd imagine...but I liked it |
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| Off the canal cruise and back on the crowded streets |
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| Nothin' says "comfort" more than a pair of wooden shoes |
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| Wooden tulips. Pretty, though. |
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| Dom Square ahead |
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| She was doing a number with a hoola hoop to loud canned music |
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| Dom ("Cathedral") Square |
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| Notice Madam Tussaud's. Crowd gathered around a street performer |
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| I always feel guilty when I do not know the name of a monument which obviously means a great deal to the people of the city |
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| Audience volunteer getting a kiss for helping bind the performer |
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| One section of the square seemed given over to "living statues," who moved a lot |
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| "Roman Warrior" raised his shield to cover his face when I started to photograph him without paying him for it |
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| Batman hardly stood still |
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| Death, just waitin' around |
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| The palace, I'd guess |
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| The pipes, the pipes are callin', from glen to glen, across the valley wide |
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| Waiting again for Tram #14, without the downpour this time |
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| There, see? Right there above the waiting shelter...#14 |
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| A tram money taker actually being civil! |
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| This square was rain-drenched and empty yesterday, now it's bustling. That's my hotel in the background |
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| Did I mention the Dutch apparently have a thing for bicycles? |
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| The little diner about two blocks from my hotel which has the second-best soup I can ever recall having eaten (the first was in Paris) |
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| Love it. Oh, and are those bicycles I see there? |
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| Yep. |
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| PHOTOS SHOULD START WITH THIS ONE: Breakfast, and the first glass of milk I've had since leaving the States |
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| Boarding Tram #21 for Central Station and the boat cruise |
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| Interesting notification system tells you 3 stops in advance. This was the first tram I've seen that had it. |
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| Lots of just street scenes to follow |
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| Central Station (railroad, of course) |
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| Not a river, but whatever it is is abustle with canal cruise boats |
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| This one's mine |
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| From inside the boat |
2 comments:
OK, I read part of your blog post and when I got to the part about how you miss who you used to be but no longer are I felt so moved that I just glossed over the rest. I checked out some of the pictures and skimmed over others.
Many of the "white man's paganism" of the West has the 3 main stages of life. Being a woman I learned that one best: Maiden, Mother & Crone. Well, when I became a mother unlike some women, my 'Maiden ego' did not go down without a long and nasty battle intermingled with aspects of my identity which have not changed because there has been no need to change. In that respect, I think I can at least sympathize and maybe even 'understand' what you mean.
Thanks, Miriam...it's nice to know others understand what I say.
Best,
Dorien
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