Or simply Amsterdam in English or Dutch. My girlfriend already asked a couple of times to see downtown Amsterdam. Finally I’ve buckled against the amount of stress caused by her to go there and so we did. Just criss-crossed around the city so she could look around at the Dam, along the concentric canals, the red-light district and of course China town. We also had a look at several famous buildings from our history. In a future visit she can make up her mind on which of those she wants to visit……
Monthly Archives: July 2007
The last three weeks
….. nothing much got updated. Well they where quite uneventful anyway so I didn’t see any reason to post anything either. I’ve helped out a friend of my girlfriend who had some computer problems. It was a mild case of malware which caused certain problems but overal just acted up within internet explorer causing blank windows to open and some overall slowness. Took a bit of time to get rid off though but in the end the system decided to listen to me. Played my second round of Twilight Imperium, a Sci Fi based board game. A while ago I bought some GameCube games and I’ve been playing around with ‘Beyond Good & Evil’ for a while. Of course I’ve been reading, I’m just about halfway through ‘Treasure of Khan’ by now. Last weekend I also continued with our bathroom, hopefully I can finish it up in the coming weekend or two. That would be great, after that a new DIY project can start.
Britain invaded by the Rubber Duckies
No, not something about a weird 1950’s era movie, but sometimes you read funny or remarkable things in the newspaper or in this case a website (nu.nl). The UK will get invaded by thousands of bathtub toys on it’s Southwestern beaches according to the article. Those toys are swept overboard during a storm in 1992 and have been floating ever since (at least most of them). This took place on the Pacific Ocean and the toys where being shipped from Hong Kong to the United States. Depending on ocean currents they have been found in Alaska, Australia, Indonesia, Peru and the Westcoast of North America (after being stuck in the Arctic ice for three years). This fact have made the Friendly Floatees famous as they have been used to model ocean currents.
Back in time
As my girlfriend wanted to see something this weekend, I thought it would be nice to visit ‘Archeon‘. This is a themepark about the past of Holland. It contains dozens of buildings from the prehistoric, roman and medieval periods. Most buildings are based on archeological finds within the Netherlands. I’ve never been there so it’s also interesting to me, and I have to admit it is, you can visit the link above to find out more, it also contains an English section. Now I have to think about another destination for the next week or the week after that. After those two weeks it’s not interesting anymore as the holiday season kicked in full gear and it becomes to busy in most cases. She’ll have to wait until September then. Pictures will be published in the photo album.