.: May 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We're Making Up For Lost Time.

This post is irrelevant...I don't have anything special to share. I've just been taking some pictures because things are finally getting green again, after the EPIC WINTER OF TWEE THOUSAND TIN!! (2010). Yeah, 'epic' alright. I love ice biking and stacking it every time I got on my bike, and every day ever so slightly I wanted to KILL MYSELF! I basically hibernated for 4 months straight...as well as everyone else in the Netherlands. The weather really sucks here. I was looking at the weather patterns the other day because it was raining so hard and I needed to go get groceries, so I was going to see if the rain was going to move out or stay...well, there was a huge rain system RIGHT OVER the Netherlands, and of course it was bigger than the Netherlands, and all other surrounding countries were sunny....even mother nature doesn't like the Dutch.

This are getting pretty and green, which suprises me because I thought that this winter might have froze all possible vegetation, permanently. People seem to go crazy once the weather starts to get warm. There are so many crackhead tourists. I literally was almost an inch away from running over 3 people the other day in vondelpark. The funny thing is though if I had run over them, the police would have sided with me because they shouldn't have been in the bike path. Ha. Anyways....I'm done here in a month....weird....

Oh and my new claim to fame is that I was in the background of a movie being shot in Amsterdam. Ha.

---IF you're having trouble seeing the photos (because they look kind of grainy) you can click on them to make them bigger)

vondelpark

Opa takin' a ride

vondelpark

a canal in the Jordaan

I'm going to miss this...

free books?

movie set...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

One Day We're Gonna Live In Paris; I Promise, I'm On It.

Credit to the Friendly Fires for that song. Anywhoooooo, I just got back from Paris a couple days ago; and took Eurolines again - which I will NEVER do again. This time there was a child vomiting 3 seats behind me, on the way back. Super.

I did some different and new things this time I was in Paris. I went with my friend Delaney, and it was her first time in Paris so we decided to be super-tourists and do a bike tour. The tour guide was Dutch. Suprise? No. Everywhere I've gone there have been heaps off Dutch people. You just can't escape them. I went to the Sacre Coeur this time, which it was an AMAZING view, I went all the way to the very top of the eiffel tower which I've never done before, I watched little kids play innocently with sailboats in the sun which just happened to be the cutest thing ever. We stayed at my aunts house which was very nice (thanks again if you're reading this, Kelly) after a long day to come home and kind of unwind. I really really love Paris.

The pictures of the little kids are so cute; they had sailboats and sticks and pushed them around the little fountain. There were some sassy kids, let me tell you. Don't get in the way of their bateau.

oldest street in paris

view from the sacre coeur

cutest little kid !!!

me @ pont neuf

Monday, May 10, 2010

Berlin

I just went to Berlin from May 3-9th and it was so much fun. It's definitely a neat city. Getting there was hell though. I took Eurolines and it's just the worst thing ever. Weird people/it smells/the seats BROKE MY BACK.

The food was cheap and amazing though in Berlin...and the beer(!!!).....so much better than Holland. One night we stopped at this Mediterranean place and for 4 euro 90 cents you got a "small" plate with up to 4 dishes on it. I got the best cous cous I've ever had, humus that melted in your mouth, and this stuff what was ground chickpeas with a good seasoning and cilantro....not sure what it was called. A huge glass of fresh squeezed apple and banana juice came with it, and the store owner was closing so he gave us a piece of cheesecake too......all for under 5 euros !!! Every morning for breakfast I went to this great cafe and had a nice piece of bread or a croissant. There was this other place called "Fresh N' Friends" which was a whole foods type store that had amazing food - AND it was open 24/7. It was a good place to stop after we came back at 6am from going out.... but um anyways I loved everything about Berlin. It had the coolest grafiti and music scene. It was a huge city and there is so much to do. I also went to the Jewish museum/holocaust museum and one of the many modern art galleries. I want to go back! I'm going to Paris on Wednesday .

Don't forget to see my post from Tokyo down below!