Maastricht

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We're more or less just back from the Vineyard (got in ca. 12:30 last night). Needless to say, more pix to come, though probably after more Amsterdam. Hope you don't mind ( Read more... )

Probably the last bike-related post for a while ( Read more... )

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These are mostly variations on what they call bakfietsen ("box bikes"), used for transporting cargo and small children.


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It's Bike Sunday here on the Recirculating Cheese channel. It's impossible to not take pictures of bikes in Amsterdam; they're literally everywhere. However, I saw very few American-style bikes - only a handful with dropped handlebars, and maybe one or two mountain bikes. Instead, you see bikes with upright handlbars, cargo racks, lights, fenders, ( Read more... )

This is actually one of the last things I saw in Amsterdam. Out at the end of the pier that science center NEMO is built on, I found this incredible derelict bike, covered with rust, seaweed, and barnacles.


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It's embarrassing that I've been back from Holland for two weeks, and I still haven't posted pictures. I've got a ton of them, and have selected and processed most of what I want to post. Ah well, start with the one...

Maastricht has this bar called Take One, with 500 beers (mostly Belgian AFAICT). You tell the barman (on the left in the banner) ( Read more... )

Another dip into the archives, from a walk in Mosley Woods at the beginning of December, as mentioned at the time. I bet I thought I'd forgotten.

This is the suspension bridge discussed in the previous post:

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Dipping a hand into the heap of photos, and coming up with...

Now that we're officially sick of snow, a snow pic from 2009-12-06, early morning after an overnight storm in still air.

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