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After many quiet, stillful nights in this concrete city of digital dreams, I have returned to blow new life and fresh colour into these pages. “O frabjious day! Calooh! Calay!” I hear you chortling in your joy.

In case you wonder: Christmas involved mild yucky-illness, though was nice and toasty and mince-pie-ish.

First post back is a photoset of pictures from my daytrip to Amsterdam with my cousin. Unfortunetly, the digital camera died right on cue as we got into Amsterdam Central Station, but did managed to get some chill-evoking white snowscenes captured on the way there. In case you are unaware, a large portion of the Netherlands is reclaimed wetlands (hence “Low Lands”) and so tends to be vast swathes of completely flat land. The wind struts unchallenged where it will, and makes for chilly times.

I’d love to say that our visit to Amsterdam revolved around the enormous collection of museums and galleries, beautiful architecture and canals, but this would be a big fat lie. Realistically, my cousin is an excited teenager who/and so has very specific things in mind when in comes to the Big A. Our day was spent roughly devided between oogling through the seedy quarters of Amsterdam’s red light district, and relaxing (with some herbal assistance) in some of the many Coffee Shops. Some shopping, a little cultural osmosis, and introduction to some traditional Dutch food helped to even things out a bit, and all in all the day was turned out to be fun.

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