Wonderful summer

Been while back home already and enjoying the room too ;) though Amsterdam is a F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S town and that atmosphere is hard to reach in any other city. Love it!

Wonderful summer to all of you, cheers!

Who says that wooden shoes are boring?

We visited a "factory of wooden shoes" and they had many nice shoes to show, I only managed to get two pictures out of my phone, there would have been many more to show, but now just this..

If you ever visit Holland, you shouldnt trust that you can pay with creditcards or dont have bigger paper money than 50 euro. We have found this quite a problem. Almost nowhere you can pay with creditcards, not even in the biggest Dutch foodshop- chain (such as K-kauppa or S-kauppa back home). So what to do if you have bigger paper money? You go to the bank of course you may think. We did - and guess what? Bank told that they don´t have money anymore, they are just a bank. What a f***? Things are really changing...

But we have enjoyed our time in here. Yesterday was such a nice day, we eat first time our breakfast and lunch outside, jackets on, but still :). Life is good!

Next week holiday

Week 8 is our holiday week from our courses and it is also winter holiday week back home. At home they have had more than -30 c grrrrrr and I feel guilty about complaining our +4 or more! Our lovely neighbour girl is arriving here tomorrow and I guess her winter holiday will not be the same as usual :) (no skiing, no snow, no frost...)

Weeks are passing by VERY fast, we have been doing our courses, looking around Amsterdam several times, been in big bosses parents and just chilling from this relaxed atmosphere in here, haha, no smoking!

My boss will try soon a picture update, take care in there!

One year more for big boss!

Last year this time we were celebrating big boss birthday under the sun in Morocco, Essaouira ( http://kuksajame.blogspot.com/2010/01/big-boss-had-birthday-ison-pomon.html )this year also under the sun (!), but in quite a few degrees colder in Amsterdam. Big boss parents came here to celebrate with us. We had lunch and cake at the campsite in our camper and after that went to the town. Dinner we were eating in a vegetarian restaurant Golden Temple. Nice easy day with good company :)

Birthday hero (;

cutting the cake..

The parents..

City under the sun, look at the buildings, not so straight always"

A "Dutch-lady" front of a restaurant..

Our delicious meals in Golden Temple

And one of those dog things again.. This cutie was sleeping in a BABY- sitter in the restaurant were we had our dinner ;)

Trams, pubs and high waters

We have really ejoyed our days in here, even we have had quite some rain!Time and days are going very fast. My bosses have been in their courses and enjoying the time in the city and the easy days in big bosses parents house. Boss will make photos with the "oddity" or other interesting things she comes accross in the daily life in here and she shares some of them with you too :). 

A flowershop after the closing time, covered with a beautiful flowerpower VW- painting in the heart of Amsterdam. Suprise, suprise - she soooo loves this painting ;)

  










Big boss and doggy, in doggy´s first tram drive today, she stayed so cool!

And oh my Godness! We got accross with this bar which has 30, mostly American beers on tap and still a huge selection on bottles - WOW! so we needed to do some tasting and will probably do some more in the future ;). Doggy was with and was biting her bone peacefully.

 











A view from the bottle list on the wall, impressive, right?

We were eating in a vegetarian "fast food burger bar" and they had these napkins saying " THANKS FOR NOT EATING ME(AT)" - very good slogan!

Below two photos from the same place, other from last summer and the other from last weekend - this tells best that we have floating rivers and very high water which has been causing a lot of problems to locals. 

Summer 2010....

Winter 2011

Dogs and parking places in Amsterdam

To have a dog in Finland or to have a dog in Amsterdam is quite not a same thing. In Finland you could never consider to take a dog with you in a bar or in many other public places, but here, dogs are often most welcome. Today we were again witnessing this with a big smile in one café. The owner and his dog came in and they BOTH took a seat, opposite of eachother, he had his lunch and doggy got a piece of his sandwich at the end. The dog was sitting in peace and quiet during the whole lunch :)

We also heard that dogs are welcome in all public transports, you just need to pay from your pet the same price as you would pay from your child, haha.. 

Other thing in here is parking problem - like in any other city. Streets are here often very narrow and there are just way too many cars. At least I saw it first time in my life that they have created these special lift spaces to create more place for cars, without taking the space from people. So everyone can walk smoothly and cars gets their own spots, in the air!

In this place they had two lifts behind eachother and I just needed to snap a picture and share it with you :)

Year 2011 and we have been hitting the road again!

We did have quite some snow back home when we left. Our beautiful skull behind our car had its part of it too, grrrr - im freezing out here - give me a hat!

Here is another photo made by big boss in Helsink, click the link above..
Cars covered by snow in Helsinki

So hey guys and gals, long time no seen!

First of all, we want to wish you joy and happiness for year 2011!
We did leave Finland again behind us to go to Amsterdam and we will stay here more or less about for months. Boss is doing some jewls studies and big boss some photography studies which hopefully keeps them very busy! There is a lot to see in here, so I might do some updates in this blog again.

We are happy to stay just in Amsterdam and if you got interested too, give us a visit while we are here, thousand welcome, as they would say in Morocco (which we miss so much!). (=: