Amsterdam another day

Ivy

No wonder people painted

Polish synagogue

The facades are purposely tilted. Ponder on the why of Design..

Anne Frank's house ai somewhere here. I'm imagining days when she was alive.

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Shopping arcade...not many shops but a lot of traffic for the loo.  Here's the thing about loos. The lights go off to energy save....and I learnt to do the Smile and. Wave...every 5 seconds😄

Queen Juliana was a people's favourite. And now there's a museum dedicated to her.

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And of course we went to the philatelist

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Caught this on my morning run

Round and round my boat hotel

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No...that's not a painting. It's the real thing!

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Yellows and blues...what is this tree that's streaming sunshine

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Art appreciation meditation...Klimt...You made me do this!

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It's raining. Two little boys are slurping their way into an orange ice candy. The shop with the  "best fries" in Amsterdam has two astonishingly long lines of tourists. Windows display cheese wheels in all sizes and wait for it...colours! There's red, green...even blue (no not blue cheese but lavender!)

Tram lines criss cross pedestrians who know not how to hop skip and jump trams, bus, cars, cycles and other cross pedestrians.

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Go vegan, Go veggie is big in Japan...umm Amsterdam. McDonalds advertises...'more than meat'. Burger King has a veggie option on big billboards. Restaurants have their veggie menu page open on their windows. Even Doner kebab proudly wears it's mushroom shawarma option on its meaty sleeve. And all the way from Kentucky....

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Paris...it was iris bus. Today Iris docked at sunrise. My predawn 5K today, I called Iris to Iris. What do you know....and there was this man wearing a Man Jacket at breakfast! So there...Iris to Iris.

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