MADNESS

They're doing a really good job on fixing up all the old houses in my neighbourhood. Not bad for the value of my house either ;-)

I rushed to Osdorp (outskirts of Amsterdam) today to find a costume store. It wasn't there anymore. Vincent was not very happy then...

After wards I met Ruud at Cake loves coffee. The look of this cake made me a lot happier!

I rescued a bee.

Sun exploding off of a cloud.

Late arvo, Marjolein came over and played with the dust on my shelves. I should really clean things up again...

In the evening we went to see a concert by MADNESS. We went there with Ruud, Laurien, Tanja and Patrick.

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The concert was great even though they did a lot of new songs and only a handful of the old stuff.

The moon above one of Amsterdam's old canals. After dropping Marjolein off at the station I walked home along the old canals. It was quiet and all I heard were my footsteps.

It's MADNESS!

I had lunch with Nicole at Edel. They made my burger the right way. Impressive!

Lunch-view.

Lunch.

My friend Kate pointed out this Indian restaurant to me that is apparently very close to where I currently live and it's supposed to have the best curry in town.

Nicole brought me chocolates from Switzerland, they are very nice indeed!

Orchid update for my mom. It's making beautiful flowers still.

Late afternoon I met with Marjolein and Ruud at Wagamama's for dinner. We went to get some poffertjes afterwards across the road. Here's Marjolein infront of the poffertjes joint.

And there is Ruud!

Only today I found out that the arch that I have passed under so many times in latin ("Homo Sapiens Non Urinat In Ventum") reads "People should not pee against the wind".

Then we went down in to the subway.

They had giving the train prettier interiors.

We got off at station Bijlmer to walk to the Heineken Music Hall.

We went to a concert of....

MADNESS!

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The support act was not much good but MADNESS did an excellent show performing everything we wanted to hear.

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Afterwards Marjolein and I went to Mulligans for a night-cap. The band there was well, not comparable. I was happy to hear Beatles songs in the pub though. It's a sought after break from regular Irish and Scottish folk music (I know that sounds odd coming from somebody who's been a regular in an Irish music bar for 15 years ;-).