Amsterdam Food. A Photographic Memory
The Best omellete in Amsterdam
Coffee in Amsterdam
Make your own Magnum. Amsterdam
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Amsterdam- City of Curious Things and Curious People
Most people are aware of Amsterdam as a great city to have fun and observe life and people. Behind the obvious sights there lies a whole host of strange things and people, and some cute things as well. Amsterdam has the ability to both shock and enlighten. Walking down a city centre street I am not sure what shocked me the most, that a haircut coild cost 45 euros or that someone had written a book titled ” The Philosophy of Beards”. True that maybe a bottle of nice mexican beer came free too.
In Vondelspark a strange gentleman with a horse’s head was playing what I imagine was some sort of tambourine. I use the term playing lightly. He was making a kind of repetitive banging noise which only seemed to stop when we was given money, so I consider this a good cause to donate a euro too. Plus no scowling when I took his photograph.
There are many shops including a number that sell whole cheeses in sizes that must make an interesting hand luggage size. Shops where they close and put up nice signs such as ” we are sorry we are closing and will not be in your palate for a few days” instead of handwritten closed signs. Pizza restaurants where they say ” no cash” rather different from the UK sunday curry buffets where its cash only. I wonder why. Beer that is actually cold with glasses kept in the freezer. Coffee that not only tastes good but looks good and can be drunk by a canal watching boats and people go by. A shop where you can make your own Magnum, at a price though around 4 euros. Maybe the best omelette I have ever tasted. From an Irish Pub actually next to the Paradiso.
The Best omellete in Amsterdam
Musician with a Horse Head.
Not entirely sure that words can describe this?
Vondelspark man.
Coffee in Amsterdam
Awful gifts Amsterdam
Fake Tulips
awful Hat Amsterdam
Batman returns to amsterdam
Where is the last pair?
Batman returns to amsterdam
Make your own Magnum. Amsterdam
Boat trips on the canals Amsterdam
Boat trips on the canals Amsterdam
Aloe Vera
Would you pay 45 euros in a Barber shop for a basic haircut and to understand the philosophy of beards ?
Amsterdam has the ability to both shock and enlighten. Walking down a city centre street I am not sure what shocked me the most, that a haircut coild cost 45 euros or that someone had written a book titled ” The Philosophy of Beards”. True that maybe a bottle of nice mexican beer came free too.
Expensive haircut. 45 euros in amsterdam.
The philosophy of beards.Expensive haircut. 45 euros in amsterdam.
The Food in Barcelona. Rotten octopus pasta.
There is nothing wrong with Spanish food but what I have been served this week has been in general terms very poor. Let me rant through it. The hotel breakfasts at Diagonal Zero hotel were the same each day, and I don’t mean the same type of food but the same food exactly. What was not eaten was put back. Pineapple with black bits attached of dubious origin appeared each day. Eggs of various descriptions appeared and all uniformly ranging cool to cold in temperature.
Dinner night 1 – in the hotel bar an alleged Salmon Club Sandwich – well ok, nothing major to complain about
Night 2 – Dinner in Barcelona FC. Set menu. first course smelled of rotten fish and I think was rotten fish ( octopus in ravioli with squid ink sauce) followed by uncooked steak with vegetables so small that they may have been grown in…
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Elephants Head Camden open mic Nights
An excellent small pub in Camden where every wednesday from around 8 pm they have open mic that attracts around 20 performers each week. Each is allowed to sing 3 songs.
Mirabilis Jalapa. The Mystery Plant
For the first 6 months this year outside my front door was a large black plant pot with nothing growing. The two previous plants had died a long while ago and I was considering dumping all the soil in the pot in case that was a factor. One day I noticed a few green shoots appearing and presumed them weeds, however over the next few weeks, these “weeds” grew ferociously and looked actually quite charming. So I left the plant alone, watered it sometimes and expected that I was growing some huge weed. A couple of weeks ago some flowers appeared and since then some more. Using an online plant app, seems my plant is Mirabilis Jalapa. Also known as the 4 o’clock flower.A curious aspect of this plant is that flowers with different colors can be found simultaneously on the same plant. The plant hails from tropical South America, but has become naturalised throughout tropical and warm temperate regions. In cooler temperate regions, it will die back with the first frosts, regrowing in the following spring from the tuberous roots. The plant does best in full sun. It grows to approximately 0.9 m in height. The plant will self-seed, often spreading rapidly if left unchecked in a garden.The flowers are used in food colouring.
Seems also that if one gets ill this plant might help or cure most things.
In herbal medicine, parts of the plant may be used as a diuretic, purgative, and for vulnerary (wound healing) purposes. The root is believed an aphrodisiac as well as diuretic and purgative. It is used in the treatment of dropsy.
The leaves are used to reduce inflammation. A decoction of them (mashing and boiling) is used to treat abscesses. Leaf juice may be used to treat wounds.
Mirabilis Jalapa with flowers emerging
Mirabilis Jalapa flowering
Mirabilis Jalapa flowering
Mirabilis Jalapa with no flowers.
Hairy Ears. Are these the hairiest ears in the world?
Having noticed the choice of glasses on this gentleman, one could not but notice the aural hair.
Hairy Ears
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Yorkshire opening batsman touted for potentially an England cap in due course however already 26 years old.
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