Sunday, December 7, 2008

This weekend

Spent this weekend with my friend Mark from England.  Stayed in Amsterdam on Friday night and this is the view from the hotel.
Houses on the edge of Vondelpark.  The sky is rarely this clear.


Royal Palace
Dam Square

One of the shopping centers had an enormous Christmas Tree inside.

Someone playing the piano beneath it.

View of the Rhine from the Veluwe ridge in the arboretum.
The Dutch water board at work on the flood plain.
View of the ridge where the river eroded it over time.  The factory in the distance is a paper mill that uses water power.
There is no bridge here, just a ferry.