Category: Amsterdam
I Take It All Back…
June 5th, 2009, No Comments
…about the housepainters, at least. The foreman just brought me a big bouquet of roses and apologised for this morning’s inconvenience. Bless. It’s very nice to know they’re not all assholes.
ZCN Totaalvervoer Rotterdam, on the other hand, can rot in hell.
Never Give A Dialysis Patient an AK-47
June 5th, 2009, No Comments
I’d better warn you, I’m in a very, very bad mood this morning; it’s a bloody good job I don’t have access to weapons.
I had hoped that after the fiasco that was yesterday this morning would be better. Yesterday was awful; first the hospital car didn’t turn up at all for my cardiologyappointment/dialysis session [...]
It’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood…
April 15th, 2009, No Comments
Certainly is in ours – one of those gorgeously gold and blue and green Amsterdam spring days that make the heart sing.
If you can’t physically be here to enjoy it, why not enjoy Amsterdam virtually and take a stroll along the Prinsengracht here. Won’t you be my neighbour?
The Past Isn’t A Foreign Country
March 18th, 2009, No Comments
And they don’t do things that much differently there either. Another fascinating recent google find I came across recently is this this Flickr gallery of 1930’s colour photographs of Amsterdam by colour wizard Bernard Eilers:
From the Stadsarchief Amsterdam:
Bernard F. Eilers (1878-1951) [...] was held in high regard as an art photographer both in and outside [...]
No more coffeeshops by 2010?
November 10th, 2008, No Comments
That’s what one criminology professor says in an interview (Dutch). Henk van de Bunt, who last year co-wrote a report on the growing of marijuana in the Netherlands and the growing interest organised crime has in it, says continuing foreing pressure as well as this growing criminalisation of softdrugs that will lead to the end [...]
The Future’s Not So Bright But At Least It’s Oranje
October 17th, 2008, 2 Comments
Sorry about the terse posting lately; despite the avalanche of fast breaking political news I’ve been more than a little self absorbed, because I’m waiting to hear the results of blood tests. As long time readers will know I’ve been quite ill for a long time and I need a kidney transplant. These tests will [...]
Comment of The Day
August 28th, 2008, No Comments
On Riazat Butt’s Guardian post on responding to vocal bigots:
CritKing
Aug 27 08, 12:25pm (about 20 hours ago)
fight fire with fire I say…
the other day I was out on my race bike training in Amsterdam (CK is a top bike racer) and a group of moroccan teenagars called me a poofter, probably something to do [...]
Bonus Clip
August 20th, 2008, No Comments
Especially for Martin, here’s Amsterdam comedian Hans Teeuwen with the Nostradamus Song:
He looks alright!
Revenge Of The Euro Tourist
August 3rd, 2008, No Comments
This makes up for all the ugly American tourists who make England and Amsterdam hell in the summer with their arrogance and incessant self-absorption:
This summer, New York is awash with visitors from abroad, who are expected to top last summer’s record number, tourism officials say. Thanks in part to home currencies that are holding strong [...]
Cyclorama
July 1st, 2008, 2 Comments
More handlebar-eye views of Amsterdam, again unashamedly stolen from Amsterdamized, here doing the loop from Oud West through the Grachten and then via the Rijksmuseum to the park. All on a lovely summer’s day, and all set to mellow music. Enjoy, especially if you’re desk-bound in the heat.
