Walked to my most hated Sony store to retrive my lens then
went to the oldest horse riding school in the Netherlands for
a free cup of tea and an up close and personal look at urban
horses in Amsterdam.
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- Beautiful houseboat
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- Sexy lamp in someone’s house
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- Goodbye old friend
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- Rover, ex luxury car.
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- Random bike parking… amateur.
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- Looks like it was high time to change these.
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- Progress – renewing the pipes along the Utrechtsestraat
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- Ladies checking the ugliest display window in the city, American Apparel
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- That’s one huge honkin bulb.
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- Serious kitchen equipment
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- Easter’s coming, and so is the Ajax rabbit
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- Weird. just weird.
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- the Spui
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- De Krijtberg
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- Historic brown cafe on the Spui
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- Beerbike is now called the Pedal saloon, pedaling and drinking around the city.
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- Yet another type of transport bike – vintage car style
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- Awesome hinges of De Krijtberg on the Singel
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- De Krijtberg on the Singel
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- New paint on a house near the Koningsplein
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- Huge flowers on the front of a bike
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- Great spot to relax with your doors
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- No, apparently she isn’t a hooker. She’s Russian.
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- MacBikers with beer
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- Ceiling
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- MUSH!
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- Keys
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- It’s got the crazy eyes!
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- The size of a postage stamp.
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- Mmmmm LEKKER!
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- Gallery
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- Man, this guy, Tommy, never rests!
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- Tile in a shop window
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- Pink fixie
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- Brass house number
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- A horse of a different colour
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- Red shutters
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- Well dressed bikers
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- Damn kids.
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- Groovy canal houses near Leidseplein
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- Unexpected beautiful house near the Leidseplein
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- Sort of looks like Jake and Elroy
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- I must have made a wrong turn somewhere
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- Bike gone, only the saddle was left.
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- Groovy light pole
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- Lizards in the kleine gartmanplantsoen
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- Paradiso theatreParadiso theatreParadiso theatre
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- Hard times are felt by all, even celebrities.
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- Orlando sings the blues.
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- Vintage style cycling shoes shop
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- What shoes should I wear to the clinic today?
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- Ewww. yuck.
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- He needs just ONE more bell
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- Hen party on wheels at Max Euweplein
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- Trees are flowering too
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- Spring flowers coming up in the park
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- Fairie’s bench fungus in the park
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- Parakeets in Vondel park
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- Street fighting nerds.
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- Mac-bikers. Tourist on MacBike rental bikes in Vondel park
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- Went past like a rocket.
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- Livin’ la vida loca
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- Ex-Eye film school.
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- Ice-free Vondel park
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- Spring has sprung in the Vondel park
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- Vondelstraat entrance to the Manege horse riding school
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- Vondelkerk (Vondel park church)
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- Royal horse carriage of Wilhelmina
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- Interior construction of the horse riding school
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- Learning to ride a horse
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- Learning to ride a horse
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- Stylin’
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- A cadillac horse
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- Finn has a really soft nose.
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- A beautiful horse
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- Finishing up bathtime
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- Is that a new coat Steve?
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- The windiest horse I’ve ever seen. umm, heard.
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- City horse
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- Waiting his turn for a bath.
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- Bath, brush and manicure
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- Post-workout rubdown.
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- This horse was snoring!
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- Stables at the riding school, home to over 50 horses
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- Well-worn wood staircase in the riding school
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- Abandoned crop and helmet in the tea room
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- Kids learning to ride horses
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- Kids learning to ride horses
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- Kids learning to ride horses
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- White horse
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- Well worn wood.
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- Beautiuful stairwell at the riding school
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- Entrance to the tea room upstairs in the riding school
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- Horses kick up a lot of dust.
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- Beautiful horses at the riding school
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- Kids taking riding lessons
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- Holland Manege
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- Riding horses in the riding school near the Vondelpark
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- Exercising the horses
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- Hobby horse in the stairs of the riding school
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- Well-worn stairs in the oldest horse-riding school in Holland
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- Dress in the Amsterdam Manege
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- Inside the Amsterdam Manege
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- Horses inside the Amsterdam Manege
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- Inside the Amsterdam Hollandsche Manege
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- Fighting parakeet near the Vondelpark
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- Parakeet vs Kauw
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- Parakeet vs Kauw
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- The Vondelkerk on the Vondelstraat.
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- I know these things are big, but COME ON!
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- Beautiful house on the Vondelstraat
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- Looks like it had a stroke. Awwww.
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- Bricks could use some fixin, but the faux yard is nice.
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- Sports edition ambulance.
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- Electric microcar on the Overtoom
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- Gorgeous electric scooter in the electric mobility shop on the Overtoom
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- Electric cycle-cross bike. Cool, but I’m not sure €3250 worth of cool.
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- 100% electric scooters and bikes.
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- Neighborhood interior decorating bricolage on the Overtoom.
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- Unexpectedly beautiful house on the Overtoom.
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- Horses in the Manege on the Overtoom
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- Back entrance to the Holland Manege on the Overtoom side.
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- Back entrance to the Holland Manege on the Overtoom side.
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- Groovy bakfiets with a front door.
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- Ummm, a rock. On the Overtoom sidewalk.
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- Beautiful door to ‘the Ladies Gym’ blocked by bikes.
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- Another type of transport bike.
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- Sidewalk bench made out of some plastic pallets.
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- Unexpectedly beautiful house on an Overtoom side street.
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- Biking and carrying a second bike. Seems to be the theme of the day.
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- Tracking a horse through the Sycamore forest at the Leidseplein
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- Ancient sycamores at the Leidseplein
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- The flowers think it’s spring now…February flowers near the Leidseplein
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- I don’t know, some cow thing for sale near the Leidseplein.
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- The impressive Hotel American. But still…
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- Leidseplein. Where lots of speeches are made.
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- Odd tourist stuff shop near Leidseplein
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- Guess what?
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- A convict is apparently on the loose near Carre.
