Sunday, March 16, 2008

Hallo From Amsterdam

Wow. What a great place. The van Gogh museum will knock you out. It's not huge (though not small by any reasonable measure), but not possible to really take in in one day, even for an art moron such as yours truly. Muiden Castle, just about 20 minutes outside Amsterdam, is also really great. The Anne Frank house is a must-see, though I'm too groggy now to even try to say anything intelligible about that experience. The city's got canals all over the freakin' place (more than Venice, it says right here), and just about the whole place is packed with attractive architecture (though I'm also a moron about architecture, so consider the source). Strange but true, there really are "smoking" coffee shops all over the place; how bizarrely rational... I'm wondering how long before, back in the States, one won't even be able to smoke tobacco without the DEA kicking down the door... Everybody seems to speak English here, though if your German's o.k. it seems like you can communicate a little anyway. (My German sucks, incidentally, so that's helping very little.) The one real bummer so far: things are insanely expensive here. Speaking of which, it's 17.50 Euro for 24 hours of web access...so that's it for now.

5 Comments:

Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

North Carolina is #1 seed. [In fact, they informally seed the #1 seeds, too, and UNC is #1 there, too.]

Cheers.

6:12 PM  
Blogger Tom Van Dyke said...

Actually, they're the formal #1, since they face the winner of the play-in game.

Will be interested in hearing your report.

6:44 PM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Thanks, Tom. I've been paying exorbitant fees for web access largely so I could keep up with all the (apparently fantastic) games I've been missing. Sounds like the boys in blue have been doing great.

6:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dude nip over to Bristol if you have time. We've just started our Easter break.

8:36 AM  
Blogger Winston Smith said...

Yo, Jimmy. Great idea, though I don't think we can work it in. Wish we'd thought of it while planning this trip...

5:54 AM  

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