current links pictures lists writing mendocino new york amsterdam berkeley london grenoble leeds city of bicycles 2002 the front of my hotel hotel entryway and very steep staircase the cute dining area of my hotel where I ate breakfast each morning view out my top floor window; note hook on the roof of each building my tiny little yellow hotel room gazing out the window of my hotel room at bastard cooing pigeons a street near my hotel shannon in the front room of her flat baby ducks in Vondelpark near my hotel a building on the edge of Vondelpark covered with pretty flowers many buildings on the canals have shifted and leaned over the centuries cute doggie in Sarphatipark happy fat dutch beagles running free charming dutch poster just down the street from the van Gogh Museum ten dickheads in fur jackets dutch cops busting someone on the canal bridge; note their cute VW Golf the homomonument incorporates three joined triangles it's a monument to homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis, as well as to gays and lesbians still being discriminated against today a tiny bike chained to a fence enclosing street construction on Overtoom cliched tourist picture of me chillin near a canal misha and her best pal spike the kitty take a nice nap happy husky running around in the Sarphatipark misha is thirsty so has a drink from the water fountain on van baerlestraat near museumplein, a man rides a draught horse a pretty wedding gown in a window, also a very ratty wig perfect blue sky and cotton candy clouds, in the Jordaan shannon and bill walking toward carnival in the square shannon leaning on the railing over a canal, not posing these guys played music in the tunnel below the Rijksmuseum standard picture of tulips in the Bloemenmarkt, 50 stems for $6.75 pretty clouds over the Jordaan my last full day in Amsterdam