\nOne morning, we took a walk in the Vondelpark:
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![\"2757\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAlternate 1<\/em> Alternate 2<\/em> Alternate 3<\/em> Alternate 4<\/em> Alternate 5<\/em> The next three images are not from Amsterdam.<\/p>\n Alternate 6<\/em> Alternate 7<\/em> Alternate 8<\/em> Back to Amsterdam. Friday evening we drove back to the centre to take a walk after dark.<\/p>\n Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> Alternate 12<\/em> This past week, my sister and brother-in-law from Poland have been visiting, so of course I have been spending time with them, walking around Amsterdam and doing the usual touristy things one does with visitors from abroad. Main One morning, we took a walk in the Vondelpark: The alternates: Alternate 1 Also in the Vondelpark, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAlso in the Vondelpark, a duck (or is it a goose?–identifying birds is not my strong suit) mother watches me carefully, with the little ones feeding in the background:
\n![\"2783\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt1.jpg\")
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\nLater, out in the streets, some more Amsterdam bird life:
\n![\"2789\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt2.jpg\")
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\nI popped into a neighbourhood grocery to buy a Coke, and the two girls manning the shop insisted on having their picture taken. I happily obliged:
\n![\"2788\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt3.jpg\")
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\nOne of most civilised features of Amsterdam is the widespread presence of public urinals:
\n![\"2796\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt4.jpg\")
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\nI don’t think I will have lunch here:
\n![\"2791\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt5.jpg\")
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\nA stop in Zaltbommel, reflection:
\n![\"2839\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt6.jpg\")
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\nWhen I come home from work, the family member who welcomes me most enthusiastically is my dog Cheeta. If she is in the garden, she sticks her head out through the fence:
\n![\"2903\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt7.jpg\")
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\nMy sister and her husband also love dogs, and they do their best to spoil Cheeta when they visit. Normally she is banned from our beds; but when my sister gets up, the dog is allowed to take her place next to my brother-in-law, who usually sleeps somewhat longer:
\n![\"2906\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt8.jpg\")
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\nWe walked down the main shopping street, Kalverstraat. The shops were closed, and it was garbage pickup evening:
\n![\"2913\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt9.jpg\")
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\nWe then looked in to the Cracked Kettle beer shop:
\n![\"2923\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt10.jpg\")
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\nAnd then we went across the street, all of 2 metres or so, and had a beer at the Gollem bar:
\n![\"2922\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt11.jpg\")
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\nFinally, we walked through the Red Light District, where my brother-in-law found a new girlfriend:
\n![\"2928\"](\"uploads\/2007\/33alt12.jpg\")
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