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Playing Tourist in Amsterdam

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Amsterdam (North Holland), Netherlands January 2019 About the same time last year (1st week of January 2019), I went to Amsterdam to see an old colleague. We were colleagues at a research-slash-consulting firm 13 years ago. Goodness, I feel old having to mention ex-colleagues from double-digit years. She moved back to Sweden when her contract ended and I was even at her apartment during her going away party.

Amsterdam Light Festival 2017-2018, Maritime Museum and Dinner at Spingaren

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Last winter season, sometime in December (2017), I think between Christmas and New Years, Dutchman and I went to visit good old Amsterdam. We wanted to check out the yearly Light Festival. Amsterdam Light Festival 2017-2018.

Photos of the Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade 2017

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These photos are a bit late but better late than never =) The Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade is a yearly event held in the summer usually on the first Saturday of August. I think it is a unique event for the Gay Pride movement because most of the parade events around the world happen on the streets, but in Amsterdam, the LGBT's strut their stuff on board boats and floats. The whole setting is grand, fun, special and unique. You can't walk around all day long in those. I hope she brought some sneakers with her =). I went to the Gay Pride Canal Parade with the Dutchman, the Dutch mother, the second Dutch sister and the eldest niece. Except for the Dutchman and moi, it was everyone else's first time. We managed to grab a good spot on the Prinsengracht, the main route of the canal parade. Thanks to the quick Dutchman. I knew it was going to be a hot day, and it was, on and off. Sadly, I cannot tolerate the sun glaring on my head otherwise I will get heada...