DAY 8
AMSTERDAM
DAY 8
AMSTERDAM
| This is the laundromat where I did an early morning wash. |
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| This is the cat that was hanging around the laundromat. |
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| Art in the street. Yes, it is the a hand on a breast. |
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| Another canal. |
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| Oude Kirk, or Old Church. The weird thing is it is smack dab in the middle of the Red Light District. Right next to... |
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| ...these prostitute windows. And even more surprising is that on an alley just to the left of these windows is the Princess Juliana School. So there they are all together in one place, a church, a preschool and whores. |
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| The Beurs Stock Exchange. |
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| This is just a shopping plaza, the Magna Plaza. Built in 1899 it used to be the main post office. I thought it looked interesting. |
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| Inside was this store, America Today, where you can buy the best American brands at the lowest possible price. |
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| Another bridge and another canal. |
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| I like going into grocery stores in foreign lands. How else could I get find stuff like this? Big Americans brand frozen pizza. The Hot Texas variety is topped with spicy pepperoni, salami, chili and mozzarella. I can't tell what is on the New York style one, but it doesn't look like any New York pizza I've ever seen. |
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| An entrance to the courtyard of the Amsterdam History Museum. The relief above the door dates back to 1581. The museum is in a 500-year-old former orphanage. |
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| Inside the museum, this a chair used by a former stadholder Willem IV in the mid-18th century. |
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| This one is the chair of the former mayor of Amsterdam during WWII who cooperated with the Nazis. |
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| The Nieuwenijk, a pedestrian shopping street. |
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| Even these street posts were phallic. Strikingly so. I mean look at it. Remarkable, isn't it? |
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| The Dutch Resistance Museum. |
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| Some Nazi propaganda posters. |
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| A propaganda film by the NSB, the Dutch version of the Nazi Party. |
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| A pissoir. Inside this curved metal wall is... |
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| ...this. Men actually stand in these things and urinate in public. Seriously. I tried, but it's a little too public for me. It's right there on the street in front of the zoo. |
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| A street in the former Jewish section of town. |
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| The Delta Terra restaurant. I had spaghetti. I know that's not particularly Dutch, but you can only go so far with native food. |
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