From Amsterdam

[Old Crank]

Did a bike tour in the Netherlands the last 2 weeks. Great except for picking up Covid. Here are a few shots from walking around while waiting to get back home.

Evening shot from our hotelroom. Yup right over the tracks.


A larger canal


Drawbridge


Not your every day store...


Museums for every thing


Rubber duckie paradise.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty for sharing!

Enjoy your trip!

[ShazzieB]

2. Condomerie! 🤣

Leave it to the Dutch! I just love their matter-of-fact approach to so many things that Anericans get their panties in a twist about.

Very nice shots. I especially love the camera angle you used for the drawbridge shot. It almost looks like an abstract painting.

[Old Crank]

4. Thank you

I took the pictures with my phone.
The next lot I post will likely be from my camera.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. There's a condom store, near the campus, in Fayetteville, AR, called Condom Sense.

[Old Crank]

5. Good one

On our first trip to France, about 20 years ago, we found that in Toulouse many pharmacies had condom vending machines outside the stores. No excuses.

[Biophilic]

6. Womderful photos and great subjects.

Seriously, these made my evening both the composition and technique , not to mention subject. I'm in love with the condom shop. Who knew?

[Old Crank]

11. In some ways I'm sorry we didn't go in.

But we had waffles to find and coffee for Mrs. Crank.

[AZ8theist]

7. Great pictures!! I gotta get myself over there.....

But that condom store......Don't they carry my size? xtra small.....

[Old Crank]

12. They have an online presence

Who doesn't?
https://condomerie.com/nl/

It is in Dutch so you have to ask yuour browser to translate.

It is an interesting city to walk around in . I have yet to hit major museums etc.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Wonderful photos, my dear Old Crank!

So much variety, and color and details! Fascinating city, for sure.

[Old Crank]

13. Thank you

I try.

[Solly Mack]

9. Love it!

[Jeebo]

10. Yellow Bikes?

I went on two Yellow Bikes tours in the middle 20-aughts. The Amsterdam city tour, and the Dutch countryside tour. And a few years before that, in June 2000, I went on a different Dutch countryside tour by a company called Let's Go! All of those tours in that beautiful country were truly memorable. I swear to God, that whole country is literally picture-postcard pretty.

About your drawbridge shot, when I was on the Yellow Bikes countryside tour, we stopped at a hand-cranked drawbridge that the guide cranked up and back down for us to show us how it worked. It might be the same one that's in your picture, although of course I did not see it from that perspective.

Yes, I have pictures, but they're all on the hard drives of old computers that don't work any more and I can't get to them. Some of those pictures (as well as other stuff on those computers) are precious, priceless, irreplaceable. I'm thinking of taking those computers to a computer repair shop and asking if they can put the contents of the hard drives on CDs or thumb drives for me. Rescue those irreplaceable memories.

-- Ron

[Old Crank]

14. They are still around giving tours

and renting bikes.
The good thing about bike rental is the range extension you get.
We were in Holland 12 years ago and did a self supported credit card tour from Arnhem to Amsterdam via a long route. It was great. This time we were in Tilburg, a university town, for 6 days and then our group went up to Bolsward, near Sneek, for the rest of the tour.
We left a day early becasue we contracted covid. Paxlovid is great BTW. That gave us a day in Amsterdam while waiting for our train home.
The countryside is very pretty. We have signed up for one next year that will be in Germany near the Netherlands border and in another small town east of Arnhem.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. love the last 2 photos .