Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Cups

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My contribution for this week’s

Cups

 

A couple of weeks back…

I did post these in my BW Tuesday post.

The black and gold photos…

 are African souvenirs.

While this display was found in

an Ily Coffee Shop

in Amsterdam in 2016.

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge: Cups

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Black and White Tuesday17-2305-Cups

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Black and White Tuesday

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We purchased, or should I say MGW purchased,

these cups/mugs…
at Johannesburg airport three or four years ago.

 Not just cups but a matching vase…

which was nicely decorated with some form water plant.

In Amsterdam last year we came upon

this display of tea cups in a coffee shop.

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Hope you enjoyed.

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Weekly Photo Challenge-Wanderlust

 

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My contribution for this week’s challenge…

Wanderlust

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Some previously unpublished photos

from some of the cities we visited

during our travels last September.
Brugges or is it Bruge?

I m never sure and would love to hear/see

how locals spell the name.

No visit to Amsterdam would be complete

without visiting a diamond cutting factory.

Rhineland-Black Forest region.

Vienna.

Florence

Lucerne

Salzburg

Finally, Venice.

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Weekly Photo Challenge:  Wanderlust

(dailypost.wordpress.com)

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Jo’s Monday Walk2017-Wk-07

Amsterdam-4, Netherlands

 
Still in Amsterdam and just…

had to post a picture of, what we were told

are called the ‘bicycle flats’ (background).

Thousands of bicycles are stored there each day.

Within close proximity to the bicycle flats is

the Amsterdam Railway Station a rather grand building I thought.

And While I was no closer than this image appears,

it is apparently in better repair the

Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station.

During our wanderings up popped my (potential) relatives again.

An Irish Music Bar in Amsterdam.

 If anyone does know  could you let me know if there is

a large Irish heritage contingent in Amsterdam, please?

Or is this pub just a one-off thing?

 

Many businesses had this type of sign on exterior walls.

I don’t know what Fred’s trade is.

Is it a typewriter he is hunch over?

I thought the number my have referred to longitude.

Alas!  No!

Amsterdam is just under 5 degrees east.

 Many buildings had these hoists at the top.

Furniture is hoisted up via these hoists due to

limited space inside.

 

As our day drew to a close I spotted these tea cups in an  eatery.

Popped my head in and asked if I could take a photograph.

Response.

“Yes that’s okay. (pregnant pause) It will only cost 5 Euros!”

My heart nearly stopped until I saw a big wide beaming smile

and a twinkle in the eye of the girl who answered me.

Left below.

We were footsore, or I was, so MGW and I spent

way more than 5 Euros in Illys, Amsterdam that day and

had a nice chat with friendly staff.

After the initial shock of ‘it will only cost 5 Euros‘ had worn off,

it was a really nice interlude knowing that hard-working staff

still had time for some fun with patrons.

I smile each time I see this photo and think how wonderful it would be

if the whole world was as friendly as these girls were.

A credit to Illy.

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Jo’s Monday Walk

 

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge-17Wk-07_0212_Irish

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Odd Ball

Week 05, 2017

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Being of Irish ancestors I found this sign rather novel.

I’m not sure why.

Just something not expected to be seen in Amsterdam.

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Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge-07

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Jo’s Monday Walk2017-Wk-06

Amsterdam-3, Netherlands

 Although I had been told in primary school that bicycles

were a major form of transport in The Netherlands,

I was not prepared for the speed at which cyclists

propelled their machines along the road.

 

We were soon no longer in the way of local cyclists…

opting for a canal cruise and…

all the sights so foreign to us.

And yet so wonderful to be able to view these places in person.

Finally the Leaning Houses of Amsterdam…or some of them, I hope.

Apparently subsidence has caused some buildings to

list sideways or back/forwards, hence the name.

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Jo’s Monday Walk

 

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Jo’s Monday Walk2017-Wk-05

Amsterdam-2, Netherlands

Our first tourist stop was…

at Gasson’s diamond polishers.

A modest 0.5 carat diamond would have set us back

3,026Euros or $AUD4,289

Something in the 2.02 carat size…

42,000 Euros or $AUD 59,530 or $US 44,933

These were fake diamonds for visitors to handle

and to demonstrate how they were cut and polished.

 This, however, was the real deal…

as I suspect this was.

Apologies for the photos, no flash and ‘things’ popping

into the line of sight upset focus at times.

More of Amsterdam next week.

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Jo’s Monday Walk