You can take the girl out of the country.....

But something about you can't take the country out of the girl !!!! Lol

Actually 'dirt roading' in Holland down the Amstel River. That's me copping a squat.....not much country to be found but we are resourceful

Been Kinda Rainy......

Been rainy the last couple of days...but the skies seem to cheer up by mid afternoon and it usually turns into a beautiful day....and today was no different...been pretty chilly and raining most of day....but we decide to brave it anyway...well..as soon as we stepped out, it quit raining and the wind quit blowing...ahhhhhh....then we found the farmers market....well rediscovered it......on DeWaag Square....its the same place we found the cool lambswool rug thats in front of our fireplace....the lady was still there........nice huh?

Farmers Market

Bob buying harring on the bridge on our way....and then buying our bread at the market

(He had to break out his pants today, for the first time! He wasn't pleased!)

Everything we need.....and then some...

Sorry I haven't posted anything too exciting...we haven't done too much...just toodle around the city....relaxing..will explore further out this next week....see what else we can find....I promise!

Look what else I found at the market

This...............

Plus......this....

Plus these.........

Can you guess what I'm making?....

So while we were at the market today, we found fresh ingredients for caprese....so we thought "what the hell"......sounds like an Italian kind of night....we also found fresh olive oil, fresh ciabatta bread, balsamic crema (yes, you heard me!) and well...look what else we found...we found all of this stuff at the market today....

We should eat like this every day.....

Can you stand one more flower picture?

Okay, so I didn't show you the last bunch of tulips I got for 6 Euros....but this wad cost me 5 Euros today at the the Saturday Farmers Market on De Waag Square....forgot all about that....And this is the nice bouquet it made...

Toodling Around

Been toodling around town a lot........weather has been ideal.....in the 70's all week....

The canals are beautiful and have been busy!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ended up at an authentic Italian restaurant......look what their house wines are......Orvieto (white) and Montepulciano (red)...how perfectly awesome is that? And our waiter had lived in Montepulciano for 10 years.....ahhh ol' Nostalgia..... .We ordered half a carafe of Orvieto......then another.....lol...think we could have gotten pulled over for drinking and biking? Oh crap...maybe we could have.....

p.s. I don't think we have eaten a meal indoors since our arrival....
p.p.s. Orvieto and Montepulciano are two of our favorite towns in Italy...many nice afternoons spent....

A few for Lynn

Lynn, you asked for a few more tidbits......This is Piddle standing in the middle of the Dam Square on a Friday night.....so many people....so much energy in the air.....and that's your hotel Lynn in the background.....

This is the queen's palace in the Dam Square, just across from the Grand Hotel....

Just another cool building that I like in this square.......probably the most "happening" place to be right now in Amsterdam....

London 2012...not exactly.....

London 2012......
Gonna try to post a few pics of our mini-adventure to Europe and the UK......not promising much, just a few pics that I'm sure not all of facebook "friends" are interested in seeing.....

Yes, first things first....had to have some ever wonderful smelling flowers to spruce up the place....found an awesome little "flat" .....that's what I like to call it...not sure of it's the technical name...maybe Chris can set me straight....but it makes me feel like I'm in a flat or a loft....mmmmm

Found lovely flowers at the market and have since been back to get a few bunches of tulips.....