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Here are the pictures I took in Amsterdam this weekend. Tomorrow I'll post pics of my pie baking adventures .

I went to the Albert Cuyp market, the busiest market in The Netherlands, and with 270 stalls one of the biggest, too.


It's an official market since 1905, but there have been stalls there years before then. There's a McDonalds right behind me in the picture above, where they have pictures on the walls of the market from the early 1900s untill the 1980s. You can get pretty much anything here, from fruits and vegetables to fresh fish, from every spice imaginable, to purses, clothing, jewelry. And since the neighbourhood the market is in is one of the most multi-cultural areas of Amsterdam, you can get herbs, spices, vegetables and knicknacs from everywhere the wind blows.

Here's one of the many fruits and vegetables stalls:


And here's a shop specialised in herbs and spices. It's almost impossible to think of a spice they don't carry. This is only the start of the spice alphabet, it continues inside. They have a shop right behind the stall:

I didn't take much more pictures at the market I'm afraid. I was too busy shopping . I did see a stork on top of the gables of one of the houses, but it flew away before I could grab my camera.

The apples I bought, for pies etc.:



Waiting for the tram on the way home:


Trams in front of Amsterdam's central train station:


Unfortunately, Amsterdam Central Station is undergoing construction (they're building a new subway line underneath the station), so most of it is covered with scaffolding. But you can see parts of the building in the pictures above. When they're done with the construction, I'll take more pictures .


Anyone feel like scratching? I shaved my shoulders and uhm, elsewhere yesterday, and it's itchy now.