Greetings and welcome to another great and glorious, Friday-flavored open thread, now with 13 herbs and spices! You'd think there'd be something extra special planned for a Friday the 13th diary, but this fuzzy-headed critter has yet to have any memorable, life-changing events happen in their life on such a day, so why start now?
Yes, it's business as usual here at Lycanthropia Labs. The drawbridge is down, the moat's murky surface adorned with rose petals, candles burn bright in the entrance hall, ready for guests to arrive.
Can I get anyone a beer?
I've got another selection of photos to share from my trip with Mrs the Werelynx to Amsterdam last Autumn.
Amsterdam
We rode the trams into downtown and started our wanderings outside the Main Train Station.
I'd last been in this part of Amsterdam back in 1989. I must have ridden the train from Frankfurt into that building, but nothing seemed to be sparking my synapses.
I wanted to just spend some time wandering around the Red Light District, seeing if I could spot a familiar landmark from my previous visit.
If nothing else, it's an interesting area in the heart of a spiderweb of little canals. It was fun to wander around the streets in the morning. No crowds (except the line waiting to get into the omelette place), just folks making deliveries and cleaning up after the previous night.
What's that? An exotic wanderer such as myself?
I believe that's a Ruddy Shelduck! I really should start making a list ...
Nothing, nothing looked familiar.
Could that have once been the Cafe that I visited with Miguel and Eran? Nothing else seemed to even vaguely fit. Okay, so we'd been drinking beer all day and I'd just taught Miguel how to roll a blunt …
I wonder if I'd gone past the old Heineken Brewery, if that wouldn't seem familiar. We had other places to go. Mrs the Werelynx wanted to show me where she spends most of her time in Amsterdam when she's there for conferences, so we wandered slowly back toward the train station.
Aw, c'mon! I've just got to end this week's diary with that picture and the hope that I'll be seeing you all here again next week for the last chapter of my series of diaries from Amsterdam.
Thanks for stopping by.
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