Laurent wonders what the hell I'm doing with my camera...

We cleared customs just in time to catch the next train to Amsterdam Centraal.

Amsterdam Centraal

It's hard to see but in the distance to the right are thousands of bicycles. Never before have I been to a city so perfectly suited to them. There are about 700,000 bicycles in the city, which is interesting because the population is only 743,000. 80,000 bicycles are stolen in Amsterdam each year.

I wonder who buys these?

De Bijenkorf, some sort of shopping centre.

Madame Tussaud's...apparently there's one in London in addition to this and the original one in Paris.

It was cool riding bicycles on these streets.

One of the few pictures of me--I never know what to do in front of a camera.

Laurent smiles as Tim walks on.

Like London, there are CCTV cameras everywhere.

You need to stick a card into this slot for the lights to work. Our hotelcard wasn't working so I used this card my mother gave me. See mom? It gave us light. :)

The view from our hotel room.

I don't know why I'm creeped out by this, but I am.

Given that I had never urinated in public in broad daylight before, and the fact that I actually really had to go, I figured this was one of those instances where I'd probably regret doing this long after the fact. Oh well--it felt good to pee. :)

I somehow managed to hold the camera steady enough to take this shot.

The only way I could get shots like this without a tripod was setting the camera on some railing.

"Smoking is deadly"

I find it interesting that there are no barriers between the sidewalks and the canals.

This reminds me of Fievel.