Tuesday

This is a cool cafe that uses decorated cakes as table centerpieces. Very cool.



Cute little drawbridges.

Visited the modern art museum (Stedelijk), but it wasn't all that: They've temporarily relocated while the museum is renovated, and they left all the good stuff (Picasso, Man Ray, etc) in storage. And that's what we were there to see!! So I discovered this new amazing photographer named Ed van der Elsken who did some amazing stuff for their "Mapping the City" exhibit. His plaque read something funny like "Ed had to flee the suffocating optimism of post-world war II Amsterdam and found a home in Paris among the nihilists." Suffocating optimism? Who says that? Who even feels suffocated my optimism?! I love this guy.

Tonight is the Air concert. We tried buying tickets tonight, but the Euro-scalpers wanted 50 Euro a piece (about $130 U.S.), so we didn't Euro go.

Had Italian at a cute Italian restaurant in Leidesplein.
Travel tip: getting table water and napkins is like pulling teeth. I did read they had super-polluted water back in the day, so they all just drank beer and spirits instead. Perhaps they never got the water aversion out of their system?