A completely mundane afternoon in a completely mundane Amsterdam neighborhood.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

See title..

[swerve]

That is the AWESOME thing about waking up in the morning...

A day not yet lived -- has SO MANY possibilities!!!

Then, the mystery, adventure and LIFE involved in fulfilling that time...

Kind of like an unpainted canvas...

THANKS for sharing YOUR day with US!!!

[zoltanspawn]

What did the windmill do? Or does?

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

harri potta jump out?
* darkvada dude *
% got poodle now wit matchin tail %
* this not last a this *
% okay %

da end

thankyou

[-Xibalba-]

How mundane of you.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

That is the AWESOME thing about waking up in the morning...

This is the dusk, although that is usually when my 'day' begins.

What did the windmill do? Or does?

I think it was a sawmill, I think, but it doesn't work anymore because the buildings built around it took away the wind.

harri potta jump out?
* darkvada dude *
% got poodle now wit matchin tail %
* this not last a this *
% okay %

da end

thankyou

I tried learning computer programming once. Not a success.

How mundane of you.

Compared to other neighborhoods in Amsterdam it's quite ugly and boring.

[cgymike]

Where's the snow?? But, in the mundane one discovers the truth of things.

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

I tried learning computer programming once. Not a success.

is nose why planet still keep back ups

hahaaar

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Where's the snow?? But, in the mundane one discovers the truth of things.

While it does tend to snow here in winter, a white christmas is not a given in this part of The Netherlands. It will, however, likely get colder towards the end of the month.

[Ram]

Where are all the hookers? I know one of them was using the camera to take those photos.

[freefall]

And here I am, expecting a picture of an axe murderer high on drugs hacking down people amidst the fire engulfed neighbourhood

[gsdx]

This may sound silly, but I've always dreamed of living there ever since I watched Disney's Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates starring Rony Zeaner on television when I was a kid. I would love to live where I had a view of a real, working windmill. It would be fun to live in one, but I would prefer to live where I could see it every day.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

The rest of the photos taken that afternoon (it's supposed to have been new year's day, around 4:30 PM).

Where are all the hookers? I know one of them was using the camera to take those photos.

They're about fifteen minutes behind the windmill, only a few streets behind the Anne Frank House.

[Ram]

It's what Anne Frank would have wanted. A safe zone where one can get 5 dollar blowjob without being arrested.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

And here I am, expecting a picture of an axe murderer high on drugs hacking down people amidst the fire engulfed neighbourhood

That's further towards the city center.

This may sound silly, but I've always dreamed of living there ever since I watched Disney's Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates starring Rony Zeaner on television when I was a kid. I would love to live where I had a view of a real, working windmill. It would be fun to live in one, but I would prefer to live where I could see it every day.

There are many places in Holland with windmills that are much prettier and better situated than Amsterdam. Many of them are still in use, although I don't doubt they are heavily subsidised.

It's what Anne Frank would have wanted. A safe zone where one can get 5 dollar blowjob without being arrested.

I while I don't know if the particular streets behind the Anne Frank House had prositution in them then, the red light district is only about ten minutes away from that place.

[jensu846]

I would love to wake up and have that as my view! I think it looks amazing! how lucky you are. All I have here is mounds of snow and flat boring land.

[gsdx]

starring Rony Zeaner

What is the proper spelling of his last name? I've seen Zeaner, Zeander, and Zener.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I would love to wake up and have that as my view! I think it looks amazing! how lucky you are. All I have here is mounds of snow and flat boring land.

I can only see it when I go out, because our windows are whitewashed with paint to keep possible busybodies out of our affairs.

[refujiunderground]

that city looks really clean compared to somewhere like manhattan or better yet newark.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

that city looks really clean compared to somewhere like manhattan or better yet newark.

Until you realize that the canal system is basically an open sewer, since the houseboats in the canals (not shown on any of my photos in this thread) have no connection to the Amsterdam sewer system.

[JP.]

Looks like gloomy day Seattle, only the street lamps look neater

[refujiunderground]

Until you realize that the canal system is basically an open sewer, since the houseboats in the canals (not shown on any of my photos in this thread) have no connection to the Amsterdam sewer system.

wait, you saying that there's basically shit floating in that canal?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

wait, you saying that there's basically shit floating in that canal?

You can smell it if you get close enough to the water.

[nycguydowntown]

Love Amsterdam--but winter on the sea can be just a tad too cold, damp and depressing.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Love Amsterdam--but winter on the sea can be just a tad too cold, damp and depressing.

That goes for most of The Netherlands.

[RaKroma]

Show us the gay area of Red Light district. Do they have hot guys in window displays?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

There are leatherbars in the street just before the red light district begins, but no actual gay bars in the main red light district.

Hot guys in window displays has happened only a few times and as far as I know never men meant for men behind real prostitution windows. Male prostitution happens on the streets or behind closed doors, if not online.

[cgymike]

I guess the cafes aren't selling hash any more?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I guess the cafes aren't selling hash any more?

They never were, as far as I know, hash is sold at "coffeeshops".

[star-warrior]

Where are the clog wearing cheese bearers?



This book has shaped my view of Holland. Ah, to be young and full of wonder...

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ Just about everywhere in the Dutch countryside.

[cgymike]

They never were, as far as I know, hash is sold at "coffeeshops".

OK well change cafe to coffeeshop than...

[Harke the Boeotarch]

OK well change cafe to coffeeshop than...

I think there's some kind of a policy not to sell both at the same place, however, you are allowed to smoke weed you bought elsewhere in the smoking room of many cafes.

[cgymike]

I think there's some kind of a policy not to sell both at the same place, however, you are allowed to smoke weed you bought elsewhere in the smoking room of many cafes.

Yeah but the point I was trying to make is that sales to foreigners or rather tourists have been restricted? Maybe not..

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Yeah but the point I was trying to make is that sales to foreigners or rather tourists have been restricted? Maybe not..

I think not in Amsterdam.

[purina]

I can only see it when I go out, because our windows are whitewashed with paint to keep possible busybodies out of our affairs.

I'd heard that people in Holland don't close their curtains when they get undressed because people never peek in. Have you ever considered bubble-wrap curtains?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I'd heard that people in Holland don't close their curtains when they get undressed because people never peek in. Have you ever considered bubble-wrap curtains?

Sure. At night some neighborhoods look like life-size dollhouses. We have a studio with expensive equipment and do't want potential thieves even to see that stuff is here.

[LilBit]

I opened this thread expecting to find pictures of Harke being fisted.

[SonOfSlobone]

You used to could skate on the canals, but I think that's a long time ago.