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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

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Sorry about Friday’s post; this was meant to be it. I had issues with the mobile interface and thought I’d saved and published final edits. Apparently not!

Have a great week, everybody.

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter TerryC.

My first visit to Amsterdam was five days long, the first four of which constituted the first-ever annual Summit of the Professional Disc Golf Association Europe. Finally, on Monday, I had a day to be a tourist.

Taken on 2018-11-12 00:00:00

Amsterdam

Something I had never seen before. It makes a lot of sense.

Taken on 2018-11-12 00:00:00

Amsterdam

I had lunch at this great café with a tiny little cozy outdoor seating space right at this rather complicated intersection. I spent 2 1/2 hours there because it was so entertaining.

http://hansengrietjeamsterdam.nl/

Taken on 2018-11-12 00:00:00

Amsterdam

I saw many people taking selfies here while I was having lunch at a café across the street, so when I was finished, of course I had to go do the selfie.

Taken on 2018-11-12 00:00:00

Amsterdam

From the same spot as the selfie, I then took a panoramic image. In the middle of the panoramic image, you can see my server clearing the table I was at.

The two people seated, were people I had just recommended the restaurant to come and had decided to eat outside like I did.

 

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    Clicking on and enlarging each picture shows much more than you can see just by looking on the post. This is especially true of the panoramic image. Thank you Terry for sending them in. I also had to educate myself about disc golf and discovered that there is a course within a few miles from me.

  4. 4.

    ET

    I took my niece on her high school graduation trip (her dad paid) and we went to Amsterdam. What I thought was a real marvel was the bicycle parking next to the train station. THERE WERE SO MANY BIKES! It was crazy. And sort of cool.

  8. 8.

    Jerzy Russian

    I love Amsterdam (and also other parts of The Netherlands). If course it was raining when you visited.

    I looked up the address of that cafe, and it is a few blocks south of KattenKabinet, which is the museum dedicated to images of cats in art that was featured in one of my submissions here. By the way, I think the literal translation of the street name is “Mirror Canal”.

  9. 9.

    oldster

    Wife and I did a bike trip north from Amsterdam a few years ago.

    Biking around Amsterdam is wonderful.

    Biking in the countryside north of Amsterdam is beyond wonderful.

    Highly, highly recommend to all BJ’ers. You can go hundreds of miles and never see a hill. But you’ll see lots of beautiful scenery, lots of excellent beer, and all the frites you can eat. The canals are beautiful. The fields are beautiful. Life is good there.

    Someday, I hope that America can be a socialist hell-hole, too. Or at least some parts of it: Montana will never be European bike-touring country, because it’s too big to support a good espresso-and-patisserie place every 10k. Parts of the West are the wrong scale for poking along on slow bikes–you either need a motor, or you have to ride centuries-plus every day to get from one outpost to the next. Different tastes, different virtues. And that’s okay with me–I’m liberal like that.

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