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.
A Load of Waffle that is Waffle Art
Never imagined how photogenic waffles are especially when laid out so cutely.
Waffle Art
copyright Chris bushe 2015
Waffle Art
copyright Chris bushe 2015
Banana and Maple syrup waffle
A Butterfly reading The Sunday Times
One of those opportunistic photos where a butterfly maybe a little tired landed on my newspaper and the I Phone was handy. just a cute image really. Maybe it stopped to watch the tennis?
The Sunday Times butterfly
Copyright Chris Bushe 2015
The Sunday Times butterfly
Copyright Chris Bushe 2015
Denbies Wine Estate Dorking
Denbies is a wine estate or perhaps better termed, vineyard in Dorking, surrey established in 1986.The vineyards of Denbies Estate are situated on the North Downs with its famous chalky soil, in a protected valley of south facing slopes. In size it is the largest in the UK with 627 acres of land of which 265 acres have been planted representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the United Kingdom. This makes it three times the size of any other in the UK and the largest independent vineyard in Europe. Around 65% of the wine is sold at the visitor centre. From a good harvest around 400,000 bottles can be produced of different types from the 18 varieties of grape grown. The main grapes grown include : seyval blanc, reichensteiner, Muller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Ortega, Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Dornfelder.
Denbies run tours of the vineyards using a small “train” that takes around 50 people each trip for 50 minutes. Trips cost £6 for adults and £4 for children and there is also the option to have a glass of the sparkling wine for an extra £4.50.
There used to be a house on the property that was requestioned by the Canadian military in world war 2. When they left they took their tanks with them except three were non-functioning and were pushed down a hill and buried. To date only one has been excavated and the other two remain buried in the fields and are marked there by two tall trees. There is a possibility that further excavations of at least one tank may be considered in the next year or two.In September 1940 the Canadian West Nova Scotia Regiment was camped at Upper Common, Netley Heath, West Horsley, on the North Downs
where a Bf110 crashed after bing shot down (4th Sept.).
The Greenfields sparkling wine is bottled for Sainsbury’s under their label. This is a mixture of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The 2014 crop was bottled in May 2015 and will get laid down for 2-4 years aging.
In 2013 there were 470 vineyards in UK and the commonest types of grape grown were
- Chardonnay 21%
- Pinot Noir 19%
- Bacchus 9%
Denbies wine Estate
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Denbies wine Estate
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Denbies wine Estate
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Denbies wine Estate
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Flint Valley English WineDenbies wine Estate
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Greenfields Sparkling Wine. Denbies wine Estate Copyright Chris Bushe
Nice Food Photographs
Garlic pizza bread. A nice starter
Chicken with asparagus and peppercorn sauce. Courgettes and oven potatoes.
Tiramisu
Apple Crumble. The Italian version.
How to make Birmingham look nice. A fairly comprehensive challenge
Anyone who has travelled to Birmingham will understand that it is as far from idyllic sandy beaches as is humanly possible. The road systems are enough to induce any kind of serious mental disorder, the many industries create novel pollutants and car parking is nigh on impossible. A little bit cruel but you get the picture. So in the few hours that I had there my challenge was to take photographs to make Birmingham look nice. To make it look a place that the tourist industry might promote, in the same way that this was attempted (?achieved) with cities like Bradford.
An hour walking around the car parks of the Hilton Metropole hotel at NEC and the car parks of the NEC found these photos below, well maybe the fruit and the Raspberry Bakewell came from inside the hotel. But this proves that niceness can exist in Birmingham after all.
Birmingham with Pylons
Birmingham looking nice
Birmingham looking nice
Birmingham looking nice
Birmingham looking nice
Birmingham looking nice
Birmingham looking nice
A 45 Second Rant against Slow people in airports.
Written by the 14 year old and made me laugh.
One of the things that really annoys me is when people walk very, very slowly in front of you. Sometimes these people realize that there is in fact, somebody behind them and obligingly let you go past but most of the time they remain completely unaware, even if you do politely ask them if you could “just get through.” Apparently, this category of people tends to be both ignorant of your polite pleas and also surprisingly very slow indeed. As well as this, these people often seem to appear right when you are in a hurry, in airports for example. You have just gone through the whole rigmarole of trying to find your boarding cards, had your bag checked by security because there was some dangerous hand cream that was over 100mls and not in the plastic bag provided, and finally you settle down on the hard plastic seats before you realize that the departure screen for your flight is reading LAST CALL and you rush off to your gate which is not where the signposts state it is, and just as you are hurrying through those corridors, you are stopped by the people in front as they are walking as slow as is humanly possible. Possibly even slower than that in fact. Unfortunately for the fast walker type of people, the slower people not only can always be located directly in front of you, but also have the tendency to walk in large clumps of slow walking people. The only way out of this situation is to push through and apologize profusely, and hope that no other person has the misfortune to be stuck behind these people at any time that day.
Food Photographs
Sometimes something as simple as a meal or a drink is worth photographing. Kiwi fruit always looks good.
Lunch at Barcelona Airport.
Breakfast in Barcelona
A Great Place
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