Ok, it's picture time!
When I was in Europe posted photos of The Next Web Conference on Flickr and wrote about it in the SEOmoz blog. If you prefer Gallery, photos of the conference are also posted there. That accounts for most of Thursday and all of Friday, my first two days in the city.
Late Friday and into the early hours of Saturday, we danced and drank at Jimmy Woo's. The music was 'meh' but the ceiling was covered in hundreds of tiny bulbs that flashed and flowed in pattern with the beat. I was tired, drunk, and overwhelmed, so I don't remember much more than that someone spilled their drink on me and I fell down. But Tariq and I managed to catch a cab back to the hotel before we were too burned out.
Saturday morning I woke up hung over to a flurry of activity. Here's what I did (or skip straight to the Saturday Gallery):
...Rented a bike and rode to Nordermart, an antiques, organic, and flea market in the northwest corner of the city center.
...Rode the bike all over the city and met a girl with a rabbit named French Kiss. We pedaled through a park and passed the Brouwerij 't IJ, a brewery in an old public bathouse attached to a windmill. Rad! The name means Brewery on the Ij. The Ij is the big river that runs along the north side of the city center and separates North Amsterdam from Amsterdam proper. The name means "water," I think.
...Biked out to Java Island, a newly built island which houses a very attractive planned community, and then came back to the city center. I moved my luggage to my aunt's house and then came back for my bike.
...But first I detoured to the Sex Museum [NSFW] and through the Red Light District.
(Keep reading or skip straight to the Sun & Mon Gallery)
Sunday I didn't do much except take a picture of a pidgeon. I had to recoup, edit photos from the conference, and write my blog post for SEOmoz. My aunt and I biked around the neighborhood a bit and went for a tasty beer on one of the dikes before getting caught in a rain storm and pedaling home.
That evening, I watched the final game of The World Cup at an Irish pub.
Monday I got my train ticket to Germany for Tuesday. Then, I went shopping! All day, I walked and biked around the city, first through the Monday Nordermart, which features crafts, cloth, vintage clothing, and much more.
...I headed over to The Nine Streets, a nice shopping district with lots of boutiques , restaurants, and sweet shoppes. I had refreshingly cool viccysoise with smoked salmon for lunch, then some sweets, and bought many souvenirs including cheese from a fabulous cheese shoppe!
...Biked/walked around the more touristy Leidsegracht, where I saw a native get a bike ticket for failing to dismount her bike in a pedestrian-only zone.
...People-watched in The Dam Square and tootled around looking at funky European Architecture
This concludes PART ONE of my European photo tour! Be sure to look at the rest of the galleries... not just the photos I linked here. And stay tuned for PART TWO- Germany!!!
Posted on July 20, 2006 @ 11:26 AM | 1 comments
Comments:
KAT! Great post and fantastic photos!! Brings back lots o' memories! I can see you had a wonderful time in one of the world's interesting cities. Can't wait to hear more.
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8:37 PM, July 20, 2006
