On Saturday we did go and watch the Irish play the All Blacks at “The Tara Irish Pub” on Rokin in Amsterdam. There were hundreds of bicycles and people everywhere on the way which is unusual and it was very difficult to negotiate our way through the crowds and the bicycles to proceed to the [...]
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We (Best Beloved and I) shopped in Haarlem for a few important things – like coffee, tobacco and Dilmah Supreme Ceylon tea. You do know of course that tobacco is not important to me, but along with excellent coffee and tea tobacco keeps Best Beloved on good behaviour. And we purchased Christmas lights, Christmas presents, [...]
We will be watching the English / All Blacks Game at “The Tara” Irish Pub in Amsterdam on Saturday 6th November at 3.30pm. It is a great pub, no smoking, lots of screens and if we get there early enough will not have to damage our necks to view the screen. It is not often [...]
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Yesterday, early evening, Friday 22nd October, we were in Amsterdam and were looking for and found the map shop – Pied a terre, to start finding maps for our proposed bike ride from the Netherlands to Switzerland. We found said shop. Said shop is huge with more maps than you could ever ever imagine exist [...]
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What to do when you are on the other side of the world and feeling sad? Go to Rotterdam on a Saturday, of course. So we went, on an overcast Saturday morning, to look at the architecture of Rotterdam and (we thought) to see, close-up, one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the [...]
I nearly forgot – 6 Nations Rugby tomorrow at the Cafe Pitcher. Best Beloved will not forget and I hope you don’t either. We will be in the Netherlands for about another 18 months or so and there will be more Rugby to see like the Rugby World Cup – I hope we will still [...]
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We went to the Cafe Pitcher to watch the French / Italian game today, and what a game that was – all that passion on the field, and me, being me, I am so glad it was not a walkover. But there you go again – I am digressing. To get to the Cafe Pitcher [...]
We wandered into Cafe Pitcher on Saturday 27th – to see the 6 nations Rugby battle continue and to grab our table, the one where I could knit as well as watch the screen should I wish to. There were a couple of young men already at the bar. I pulled out my knitting and [...]
Yesterday – we went for a bit of walk to the old Irish Pub in Houtplein in Haarlem, to discover a revamped, modern club like pub where they were playing vinyl records of Hammond Organ pieces from the 50s, believe it or not. And no television in sight so no more football. They very generously [...]
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