Time for more Tulips

The tulips were done so we went back to the Albert Cuypstraat Market for more. This time the palate is purple and yellow, but the tulips there cost a lot more than at Dapper Market . Today we paid 2.50 euros for 20 purple and  2.50 euros for  10 yellow. Also yvonne  found the greatest hat ever for me. (7E)

After finishing the Strippen Karten (strip of bus tickets) that Pebbles had kindly provided for us we invested in quite a bit more Strippen Karten so we hop on and off the trolleys and walk once we get there.  We expect to have enough Strippen Karten to take the 197 bus from the Leidsplein to Shiphol when we go. (I just love that word Strippen Kerten probably the only Dutch I will remember.)

The Food..... overall here has not been great, but being back at the AC market let us visit again the Turkish Pizza Place/Bakery at Governstraat and Van Woustraat. Yvonne and I agree that this is our favorite restaurant and favorite meal ....two pizzas (they served them rolled) for (1.60 e each).  The lamb mixture is cooked with the crust which is like a nan bread, super  delicious and the raisin cookies are very good.

We have been here now two weeks and happy to have such a nice apartment so staying home is fun. There are endless pictures from the window on Flickr "Just Passing By our Window"   

On arriving home today there was a photo shoot going on just outside our window. It was all I could do not to race up to the our window and start taking pictures myself...which I did.  A tall slender blonde model type women with a sexy red dress was the focus of everyone's attention.  So since we heard that Paris Hilton is in town I am just saying that it is Paris Hilton, (not that I really know what paris hilton looks like) but Yvonne insists it is definitely NOT Paris Hilton. Whoever she is will soon be feature on "just passing by my window."

So we've had had three garbage pick ups since we arrived, Every Tuesday morning and Friday morning. 

It is very strange coming from composting and recycling to throwing away cans. I get the urge to collect my cans and mail them home to my lane to be picked up by the binners. We have recently found a place where we can put paper and glass down the street.

Finally, in the town filled with every kind of museum, gallery and collector we have gone to see some, the Cat Museum was our first stop quite a nice tribute to cats in a beautiful mansion and garden on Herengracht. 

We also went to FOAM and saw a Richard Avedon retrospective with that great shot of Janis Joplin and this really nice picture of a Paris model in the sixties playing pinball in an outrageous dress. 

Yvonne has noticed that the men of holland wear  a lot of pink as becomes their complexions. We ar gathering photographic evidence of this to share with you at a later date.

Meanwhile stay tuned for the Postcard Race Round 2

I will be placing more photos on Flickr very soon. I have only done that once, it is hard to keep up with all the fun activities.

What we are reading:

Yvonne- American Wife

R2 - 2666 (thick book that I will be reading for a long time.)