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This is not your church bazaar. The street markets are staffed by full-time merchants who have traveling stalls. The Amstelveen market, shown here, appears on Fridays and...

Museumplein, the open space among the three big museums, has vendors, food trucks and stands, and ticket sellers. This one advertises an oil painting, which looks as good...

I assume the King and Queen are not staying at the Royal Palace this week. There were lots of families at the carnival this evening. You could eat nasty food, lose your m...

The Dutch government does not run the post office. It is now a private organization, Post.NL. I know they have colorful boxes and I have been told that there is no longer...

Vondel Park is pretty big. On a beautiful spring day like today, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who walk, ride, hang out, smoke pot, play tennis, or pilf...

There are many, many, many places to eat in our part of the city. Some of them are too expensive and probably priced for the tourist with money. Some, like Falafel King,...

In the Leidesplein neighborhood, there is a street lined with bars and nightclubs. One could readily imagine the scene at midnight, which I will have to do because I no l...

Izzy and I went to visit the PurePoint toilets this evening. They are in the very modern parking garage that lies below the museumplein, the large open grassy field that...

Here is our friend Boyd. He is a charming and kind person, and he has excellent manners, which he exercises with ease. We met him in Boston but he lives in a polder here...

Isabella Rossellini has been a country dog until now. I promised her that she was going to like it here. And I think she does, because the neighborhood is packed with new...

Brandmeesters roasts coffee. Here is their oven. They have a nice assortment of coffee beans, so hopefully we have found one as good as Karma. The names of the drinks are...

The tulips here seem bigger than other places. They are in many colors and patterns. The wilted tulip, when examined up close, is actually more interesting looking to me.

There are indeed a lot of tulips in Amsterdam. We learned in Dutch class that a modern entrepreneur promoted the idea of one tulip for every person in the city. They are...

The Venetian light fixtures in our apartment have an elegance and style from an earlier era. You will not find one of these at Wolfers. Along with that older style is the...

I learned something today: I don't really like the sound of big organs like the one at the Concertgebouw. We attended the free Wednesday lunchtime concert today. The bass...