Happy Dependant’s Day
Yesterday was my first Forth of July in a foreign country. The weather was lousy all day, intermittant heavy rain. I spent the day going between bars and my hotel room. I can’t remember, off the top of my head, a rainier 4th. Even if there had been fireworks you wouldn’t have been able to see them. I suppose the U.S. and The Netherlands have some kind of treaty where The Netherlands takes all the bad weather on the 4th, so that the party can go on. I’m sure Independence Day (or Queen Beatrix’s birthday or whatever they do here) has great weather, and the U.S. gets a blizzard. I’ll never understand international politics.
I spent an hour and a half in a bar named “The Doors” and they didn’t play a single song by The Doors. The only Doors song I heard was when they played “The End” at last call. I guess that’s a nice gimick.
This keyboard (although thankfully a qwerty layout) is very tough to type on, so that’s all I’m gonna say for now. I hope you all had a happy holiday.
Tags: Amsterdam, Travel
Mark
you know how for st. paddy’s day we go to the local irish pub–
was there an ‘american bar’ you could go to to celebrate july 4th? i assume the place would be stocked with natty light and the beast