Waterlooplein Sunset...

Dag!

After a rather overcast morning in Amsterdam, the sun decided to show itself and warm things up around midday. It had been a rather long week of work in the Scenic Amsterdam office - we both worked all of Friday and were kindly treated to a sumptuous Italian meal that evening.

We decided to have an easy Saturday, nothing too strenuous, just a stroll through the markets. The closest to us is just one street away on Lindengracht, on every Saturday and Monday morning. We sampled the local Wurst, looked around, strolled a little more. Eventually we had made our way to the other side of town to the Waterlooplein Markets, which are on every day other than Sunday. After doing a little more souvenir shopping and around 5 hours had passed, time does seem to get away from you easily here, we slowly made our way back home again.

The work side of things will settle down a little now as the first tours will be on the way, by the time regularity sets in we will all have to up and leave for Switzerland. What a shame; rolling hillsides, crystal clear lakes, snow-capped mountains - what a price to pay! Enough of that though, still so much to see here in The Dam. We decided to buy ourselves what's called an I Amsterdam card which gives you entries into museums, use of public transport on the trams, a canal cruise and quite a few other perks over 48 hours. All going well, next weekend we're going to make use of that and squeeze in all that we possibly can, including the Van Gogh Museum and Rembrandt House plus a lot more.

Here is a quirky photo of a tree with bears in it right in the midst of the Waterlooplein Markets.


A big hello to everybody back home, we hope all of you are doing well, we sent out a big load of postcards so keep an eye out in the snail mail. No doubt you will all hear from us again very soon, until then,

Regards,

Jim and Ness

[A side note: One of the local shopping centres is called Albert Heijn and I have taken to abbreviating it to "The AH" which will be an obvious reference to some of you. Some of you will just shake your head. Noobs. :)]