Here are pictures from various trips I have taken to faraway (and not-so-faraway) places.

Near the end of my trip, I also threw a Party At Ian's Place At the Hippies Hangout.

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Kerry (half-hidden behind the bicyclist; oops), Mark, myself, and Shar in a park on 29 April, the day before Queensday.

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After the park, Shar and I wandered about. We stumbled upon this group practising drumming, so we watched for a while.

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Shar is happy to be in Europe!

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Queensday in Amsterdam. This is a national holiday cebrating a prior queen's birthday (the current queen's birthday is in the winter, and no one wanted to have the national holiday then). On this day, it seems there are many times more visitors to the city than there are natives.

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Queensday is the day people in Amsterdam are allowed to hold what we in North America call ``garage sales'': they just put all of their junk out and try to sell it to people.

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More stuff for sale. Note the countertop stove near the top of the picture. We could have used that at the Hangout, but we didn't notice it until after we looked at these pictures. D'oh.

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Orange is the official colour of Queensday. Even the horses were wearing orange.

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Shar, on our way to a Queensday afternoon pre-party.

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OK, I'm officially in the Netherlands; there's a windmill and everything. :-)

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Left to right: Carla, Ariane, myself, Mark, Jim, Kerry, Sameer. Rop in front.

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Nieuwmarkt on Queensday. Lots of people.

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The Waag building in Nieuwmarkt square.

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A shop selling magic mushroom tea for 5 guilders a cup. You don't see that in the States.

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Lots of people in boats, lots of people on land. Big party day in Amsterdam.

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After much calling back and forth on cellphones, we finally found Nikita, who had arrived on Queensday. He had observed that asking people in the street for directions was pointless, because there were more tourists than locals around that day. Thank goodness for technology.

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The Queensday pre-party we went to. We all just lay out in the sun on this cargoship-turned-houseboat.

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Another (mobile) boatload of partygoers pulls up alongside us.

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Shar seems exceptionally happy.

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Lots of partygoers.

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You can spot me by the Pilot holster on my belt...

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Very contented, all.

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