#north amsterdam

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Cafe de Ceuvel North Amsterdam

[averycanadianfilm]

Cafe de Ceuvel, North Amsterdam. 

[thelasttraintoarcady]

MY FRIENDS IN SPACE (poem)

MY FRIENDS IN SPACE

My friends have moved

Right off of the map 

I’ve looked in three guide books 

But they are not there, 

The horizon of mystery 

Has been overlapped 

By a velvet night sky 

Of cold Amsterdam air.

The ferry boat cursor 

Sails through inky black waves 

That reflect all of those pale and faint pulsing stars, 

That range in formations 

Zodiac 

Between waving trees 

That the trams do not pass.

The ferryboat lands 

Mice and bicycles glide 

Like curious moonshuttle, 

Ramshackle probes, 

Are those Centaur forwards? 

In Volewijcker white

And green in the mists 

Of former glory boasts?

The bye-ways of space 

Are opened out flat

Andromeda street and 

Meteor way, Betelgeuse, 

Mars, and a Solar square 

To the ring of comets 

Where my friends now stay.

Contact me by Facebook 

Via the Telstar 

Or those distant pylons 

In Hilversum placed, 

Tell me of your home 

And your cosmic garden

For you are now known as 

My friends in space.

Steev Burgess

Note: Two of my best friends have moved to the north of Amsterdam, to a district where all the streets have “space names”. 

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Zaandam and Jan Donkers

Today we went to Zaandam.  It was beautiful.

in a couple hours we go to north amsterdam to meet Jan Donkers, Journalist, activist, Pop music specialist extraordinare...

so tonight was pretty amazing.  we went to north amsterdam on a joke of a tour but Jan Donkers was so cute and we could barely hear him.  he took us to a restaurant for drinks afterwards and when we walked in, written on the wall were the words to the song that me and Lindsay had learned.  the professor made us sing the song for Jan Donkers and take a picture with him in front of the words.  We sat down and drank  by candle light.  such a romantic way to end the night.  only down sides were i accidentally split a whole bunch of candle wax on the table right in front of the professor and he shook his head at me.  also i tripped and almost broke my leg falling over a big stone that came out of no where during our tour.  

Oh and our tram on the way home ran into a car so we were stuck on it for a while and when they finally let us off we got to see what it looks like when a slow moving tram runs into a car.