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Mike and Lesley went out walking after they left me at the hotel. They surveyed the situation in the Red Light district and said that I wouldn't see anything there. But Lesley didn't understand - I didn't want to see the prostitutes in operation. I would have been happy just to see the street...

Decorated bike Step gable with winch at the peak Swoop gable De Waag on Nieuwmarkt a 15th-century building on Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam. It was originally a city gate and part of the walls of Amsterdam. The building has also served as a guildhall, museum, fire station and anatomical...

2 November 2022 I had a wake up call for 7:30, and Lesley came and got me and we went down to breakfast (which is included). Breakfast restaurant Mike had already eaten. I had poached eggs on spinach Eggs on spinach (I asked them to hold the ham and the Hollandaise sauce) and the eggs were...

There were three of my grandchildren that I had missed traveling with when they were young teens. Two of them had been 24 and 26 years old. I thought that maybe I could still travel with Mike or his brother or sister. Mike and his sister had visited his parents when his mother was on a job...

Then we went to a wooden shoe factory Granddaughter and Guide outside the shoe factory and they gave us a talk on making the cheese and showed us how they made the shoes. We got to taste some of the cheeses - or I did. (All this was what we missed on the Tulip canal cruise Bob and I took in...

Since we were to be picked up at 10, I didn't leave a wake-up call. I waked up at about 7 and got dressed and organized before I waked up my granddaughter. She had fallen asleep with her ear buds in and I had to touch her before she waked up. She does sort of spring awake immediately. We went...

Bridge traffic light Montelbaanstoren tower restaurant market stalls from the back Looking down the canal fancy lights bridge and boat Bridge stop light Girl in the window No alcohol zone bikes by the canal Swan escort We got the wheelchair back. Now to get back to the...

Jug in the window of the Monkey Bar Older buildings have smaller bricks Delft store Logo on the Blue Delft store Doelen Hotel-the oldest hotel in Amsterdam. Rembrandt lived here for a period of time and painted the Nightwatch in a room on the third floor. Swan in a canal He asked...

My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and...

There was mutual agreement that we'd all get together at my Sister & Brother in laws place just out of Kerikeri. The weather up North is just sublime, they've got plenty of room, and enjoy the company. Being a bit frugal at times, I'd booked an afternoon flight, which meant it was a bit after...

The National Monument on Dam Square (Dutch: Nationaal Monument or Nationaal Monument op de Dam), Amsterdam, is a 1956 World War II monument in the Netherlands Madame Tussaud Munt Tower orphans depicted in a fake window on the wall Former orphanage door Nun statue - or more accurately...

The people at the hotel are very helpful. We got a wake-up call at 7 and got dressed to go down to breakfast. The scooter charger was green before we unplugged it. But we could NOT get it out of the room. So I called reception and asked for help. Two bellmen came up and one of them said his...

I am leaving for my last grandchild trip. She's the youngest of my 11 grandchildren. She is 12.5 May 29 KLM-Delta Flight to Amsterdam leaving Houston-Bush 1505. Arriving Amsterdam 7:20 May 30 Hotel in Amsterdam: Ibis Amsterdam Centre Address: Stationsplein 49, 1012 AB Telephone number: +31 20...

The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians lived in pueblos south of Colorado. I remember that after we left the Sand Dunes, we visited their home pueblo - I do not know what the connection was...

We did one additional trip in Colorado before we started for home. We drove over to the other side of the Rockies to the Uncompahgre Plateau. Tennessee pass (Standing or sitting on the rock markers of the passes is a family tradition) My mother was intrigued by the columbines growing wild...

Miss Kettle's house in Westcliffe Miss Kettle (one of my father's school teachers) had a house in Westcliffe. We went up Round Mountain, a small mountain in the valley, and looked for garnets. (I don't think we found any). From Round Mt. 1948 - Silver Cliff closest to us and the upstart...

My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet Mountains on the east and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (part of the Rockies) on the west. Wet Mountain Valley looking toward the Sangre de...

My dad with his mom, me, my sister and my mom My sister and I wore dresses most of the time. Usually made by my mother. She would make one for my sister and one for me, and then when my sister grew into my dress, she made another one for me in a bigger size. After I grew out of the dresses...

After we left Uncle Leonard's, I am not absolutely sure of the sequence of events. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park Chipmunk lured out with a PBandJ and I remember seeing the Rocky Mountain Sheep, but I don't have any photos of them. Me up on the rocks in Rocky Mountain National...