The Apple flagship store opened today in Amsterdam, and I went, along with
6,000 of my friends and neighbors, most of them not from Amsterdam.
The line started Friday night. A very successful turnout.
We all got a groovy orange t-shirt and the opportunity
to buy some Apple stuff at a discount.
I left with a t-shirt, and walked to the Westerpark to have a beer.
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- de Bijenkorf now does Bondage and fantasy gear and clothing, or at least the window dresser thinks so.
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- Scottish stag party on a pit stop at Kentucky Fried Chicken. See the red face?
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- This trippy dude only could play ONE note. Srsly. :-p
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- Classic style is trying to come back in style.
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- I love this restaurant, but it’s a bit strange going in.
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- Unfortunately, one of the best Indian restaurants in Amsterdam is under a “Private Sauna”
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- Stichting Heemschut Hulpfunds freestanding building on Nieuwezijds Kolk
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- Those lamps are freaking me out a little.
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- Oh dear, Kiki. really?
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- Exactly… Why not?
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- Mixed languages restaurant
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- Birdhouse, canal house.
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- Corner of the Brouwersgracht and the Herengracht
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- The Red Lion, but with a man’s face and architechts tools
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- Harbor Pilot and the Wild Sea (rough big waves) house plaque from 1619
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- Corner of Brouwersgracht and Korte Prinsengracht
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- Appel’s gallery
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- Curvy bike
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- Converted warehouses with shutters.
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- Fantastic roof terrace
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- Extremely thin house
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- Bridge over the Brouwersgracht
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- Brouwersgracht – Brewer’s Canal
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- Shutters and retractable entrance steps.
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- Shutters and beautiful dutch girls on bikes going home from shopping.
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- That’s a hell of a transport bike.
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- Beautiful bridge on the Brouwersgracht
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- Used to be a school, now an outdoor sports store.
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- Historic building fitted with a climbing wall
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- Starling mob in a tree.
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- Cruel joke, turning the tile around
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- Hanging flower baskets on the street light pole.
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- Random street art by a visiting graffiti artist
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- So white, so shiny.
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- Huge effort went into this slide.
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- One of the coolest playgrounds in the city, looks like the Atomium in Brussels.
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- I have NO idea what this thing is.
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- Plaque marking the former site of one of the city wall windmills
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- Beautiful entrance to a houseboat. Nice effort!
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- Train bridge that can be opened.
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- Roller-blader flying out of the skate pool
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- Roller-blader flying out of the skate pool
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- Skate park near Westerpark
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- Reconstruction area tarted up with strange pictures
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- Tiny control closet made to look like a tiny house. What?
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- Street poetry, graffiti on a construction site.
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- Bike parking at the health club
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- Black dog, black crate
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- Gezond = healthy, cafe.
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- Marnixbad swimming pools and health club
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- Boat party #2 of 2012 boating season
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- Van Oldenbarneveldtplein, Westerpark
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- Statue in a park near Westerpark
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- Fantastic statue in a park
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- Tiny flying bike
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- Tiny bike, massive lock
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- Boxbikebin. People can be very anti-social.
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- I have no idea what that box was designed to carry
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- Huge camera, but they don’t make film for it any more.
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- I’m not sure exactly what this means, but I can guess.
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- Health club restaurant
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- Whutchu lookin at?
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- The invisible man has been painted blue
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- One of the few free-standing houses in Amsterdam
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- Gezonken bootje.
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- Spicky Spicky on a curb.
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- Nice view of the Westerkerk
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- Ex- Eben-haezer school, now a Hostel.
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- Boxhead wheatpaste random street art.
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- Practice head in a salon window
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- I need that! on, no, it’s €5000, nevermind.
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- Obi coat by Jennifer at Kasuga Studio Amsterdam
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- Block and tackle, ropes, used to lift stuff into a canal house.
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- Wedding Kimono in a shop on the Rozengracht
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- Another extremely creepy thing outside a bakery.
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- Graffiti on a coffee shop
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- Returning from a winter-sports holiday?
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- The old Rozen Theatre on the Rozengracht
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- Entrance to a hofje (an inner courtyard with inward-facing houses)
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- Pizzaria across the street from, and name stolen from, the original Mazzo Club.
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- House plaque ‘the church crown’
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- Heading off to Alycia’s 10th birthday party
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- Nice… bird. In a house’s front window.
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- Tavern and Liquor store “Laurel Tree”
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- German guy on his chopper bike
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- Groovy doorway
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- Painted from the ice when the canal was frozen on a canal retaining wall
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- Enormous carved rat
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- Wedding Kimono in a Japanese store.
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- Very creepy store window that looks more like a crime scene.
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- Fabrice’s mailbox… 1, 2, … 3???
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- Statue on Fabrice Hund’s boat
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- Car of Fabrice Hund, extraordinary Amsterdam artist.
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- Statue on Fabrice’s boat
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- Jealous tagger kids ruining anothers art rather than making their own. No talent required
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- Only takes a second to ruin it.
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- More randomly vandalized street art
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- Street art, vandalized as usual.
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- Your wish is granted, don’t shoot.
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- Quack. Random street art stencil
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- Girls contemplating Stamppot, mmm, or just spaced out.
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- Watch out, that first step is a doozy.
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- Queens Day loot on an apartment balcony.
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- American girls looking fabulous, putting on makeup while navigating through the tourboats in a peddle boat.
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- Kid is wearing an UNOX soup hat.
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- Iva scooter. New brand – www.ivawoerden.nl
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- Rickshaw type bike with 2 kids seats.
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- First party boat of the season. They still look a bit cold.
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- The fire boat, like the fire truck…but more awesome.
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- Rude marquee for a club near the Leidseplein
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- Club down the street from Leidseplein
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- More reflections.
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- Restored architecture on the outside of the Apple store.
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- Greeting the new customers with lots of noise.
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- Massive interest in the new store and products.
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- Here, dad, this is how you operate this thing.
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- Oma’s kickin some beats on an iPod, checkin the Dre’ Headphones.
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- Very clean-cut customer.
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- Apple store will be very good for Amsterdam. Nice monitors!
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- Hey, who are those guys? Do they look familiar? 🙂
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- Hi 5’s, a free t-shirt,lots of screaming and cheering greets each new customer.
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- Product stations everywhere
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- Whipping line for a free shirt
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- Tweeter still going at it.
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- That dude looks familiar… 🙂
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- Feet over glass
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- Beautiful staircase to the massive upstairs area
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- Extremely enthusiastic Tweeter
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- Reflections in the window
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- Almost there…
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- Queue of hundreds waiting for entrance, security has his eye on me.
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- Love ME!!! Hug Me!!! Lush cosmetics, natural as a banana.
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- Reflection in the Apple store windown
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- Banana!! (love me…)
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- It’s a party at the Leidseplein Apple grand opening
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- Bananas, oranges….APPLES!
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- Look! I got 2! One for soccer games, one for eBay.
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- Back of the shirt detail and origami box
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- Apple’dam t-shirt from the Grand Opening of the first Apple store in Holland
