Himself and I wandered the streets the other day as we are wont to do when we are not riding all over the countryside on the back of a motorbike … *takes a breath* … and we stumbled across the Uitmarkt.
Now, “What is the Uitmarkt?” I hear you asking me through the internet. Why, the Uitmarkt is a three day celebration of the Netherlands cultural scene! Would you like to know more?
Catching up on some of our more exciting recent adventures, we attended SAIL last weekend! It is an epic occasion where Amsterdam becomes host to all manner of water vessels for four magnificent days every five years.
It was an amazing spectacle and exhibition to be a part of and contribute to. We wound up going on the Saturday along with 600,000 other people who attended that day. Would you like to know more?
If you go out into the middle of the woods, and over a hill, and around a corner, you will find a gate.
Beyond it there lies a vault. Now this vault was originally built as an art vault in order to hide the art from the Rijksmuseum from the Nazis. Would you like to know more?
We have a motorbike. We live on Continental Europe. It is Summer. We have access to Autobahns. All of this must reach only one conclusion. We leather up, straddle the beast, and head East! Before we leave the Netherlands though, I’d like to draw your attention to not only how flat the Netherlands is, but how there is enough water that they don’t bother with fencing in the fields. They just dig more canals.
This is our “where the hell are we?” photo. The Utrecht ring road confounds Himself. Would you like to know more?
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Esteemed Audience! We have made a recent(ish) trip to Leipzig! Now I shall regale you with the tales of our adventure!
Along with 20,000 other people, we descended for the four day music festival that is Wave Gotik Treffen. It happens every year over the Pentecost long weekend. Would you like to know more?
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