Amsterdam - Friday May 19, 2000

Today started with an excellent breakfast and a bit of taking-my-time during it (as I had awoken too early for the appointed meeting time with Josiane).

We took the tram with Catherine to visit the Van Gogh museum, which I like (but as I'm not fond of museums, it was just another museum). There are a few pieces of work from Van Gogh that I like. Let's say a dozen. The rest of his work I don't really enjoy as it is my opinion that with such a technique as his, he could have made much more beautiful things (...)

Then we went to the Albert Cuyp Markt. It was a real experience! Essentially cheap clothes, miscellaneous and unuseful stuff, and beautiful cheese, fruits and flower displays.

We dedicated the remainder of the afternoon to sight seeing, having a coffee break somewhere and visiting the shopping mall (unavoidable stop for a woman :-).

Buildings with gables	Old buildings and older one	Rijksmuseum	Museumstraat (Interim street?)	Building without gables
Josiane and Catherine	The museums area	The museums area	Rijksmuseum	An official Building (the one for the marine back in the ole days)
Boat over Boeren Wetering	Fossils shop on Ruysdaelkade	2 strange bicycles	Josiane's raw herring and pickle sandwich	Strange costume on Albert Cuyp Market
Beautiful flowers On Albert Cuyp Markt	Mounttoren (the money tower)	Cyclotourists on a bridge	a home boat	Westerkerk
Keizergracht and a bit of the homo-monument	Street urinal	Canal	Westerkerk	A row of buildings
Moving in furniture	Atlas and the cupola of the Royal Palace	Bridge over the Singel	Atlas	water again end of Prins Hendrikkade

Here continues my photo album...