The bridges constantly open & close to allow canal traffic to passPickpockets like shopping too!A neighborhood tavernHouse plaques and …detailed masonry work everywhereOne of many cheese shopsThe West-Indisch Huis – our hosts got married thereWe could use that public drinking prohibition in Saintes!Pretty – Prettier – The PrettiestThe unique Party-Bike-Limousine, only in Amsterdam!!Houseboats, permanent residences, line the grachtenAn alchemist’s secret laboratory … actually a perfume distilleryand then there are the pancake restaurants – by the looks of the passers-by, he seems to exit a veritable den of iniquity!Oh, so very ERTE, n’est-ce pas?Braving the chill while patiently waiting for the brideLove the red shutters!And the gray ones! This front is part of the unique Pulitzer Hotel at PrinsengrachtBusy street cornerAll is quiet just a half block off the busy grachtA quaint hair dresser’s shop – notice the shape of the doormatOne of the many restored 16th and 17th-century houses in the Jordaan neighborhood of central Amsterdam. Formerly workshops & trade buildings -this one was a bakery, as indicated by the plaque- now very posh and expensive private homes.A little kitsch now and then warms them heart cocklesdittoQuote by Augustus Saint-GaudensThe view across the grachten is always beautifulAnd one more. This is Barry’s favorite, the one with the elegantly curved roofline, peaking out above the Lindengracht Market stalls.Lunch at the Paso-Doble, stumbling across this tiny gem and two-stepping it adroitly through the tapas menu 😉… embracing Spring!as is he!Gable endsA house plaque close to our house …which is in this pretty street (picture taken from the 1st-floor balcony. Did you see the heron?)😀 (It’s actually a film- & design agency)
saying bye for now with the Lindengracht Market calliope
NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE by Photolera Claudinha 