After the Cheese Market in Alkmaar - 2016

Weigh house after the Cheese Market is over


Street Organ

We saw a street organ like the one we saw at the tulip gardens. A street organ is an automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. Dutch street organ are large organs that play book music. They are equipped with multiple ranks of pipes and percussion. They are powered with a belt drive from a small battery powered motor or donkey engine, allowing the organ grinder to collect money. Slightly smaller than the semi-trailer-sized fairground organ the Dutch street organ is nevertheless able to produce enough volume to be heard easily on a busy street corner. Modern Dutch street organs are frequently trailer mounted, and sized for towing behind a pickup or other light truck

Another view of the street organ


Street organ at the end of the street


Store next to where the street organ was set up

Then it started to rain again

and I went back into the cheese museum

Post cards 1€ or 0.5 €


Wall of post cards


smart phone ap


Wall above the crowd

and asked them about buying some cheese to send home. She gave me a map and marked on it a cheese shop that was two doors from the PO. I put on the poncho I got when I rented a scooter at Disney World and we went out into the street.

It was on a pedestrian street

While we were on our way to buy cheese, I saw a jewelry store

storefront

and ducked in there to shelter from the rain. I bought a sapphire ring to maybe give to my granddaughter

ring

In the end I gave this ring to my daughter whose birthstone is sapphire and bought another one for my granddaughter. We found the cheese store.

view from the scooter


Cheeses on the shelf


The red cheese was what we bought

We bought some cheese and then took it to the PO

Post office logo

and bought a box and some bubble wrap and the lady at the PO taped up the boxes and we mailed them. It was time for lunch so because it was cold, we tried to find a place to eat where we could eat inside. I tried this place.

Hap Wat from the outside


Fried chicken (I could read that)

But I couldn't find a table.

Hap Wat sign from inside


Burger Tijd (Burger Time in English)

We saw this restaurant when we were looking for a place to eat lunch in Alkmaar after the cheese market. Their website says that they have the best beef burger in Alkmaar. Apparently the burgers are delivered to the customers.