Amsterdam is a very pretty city (even throughout the infamous red-light district ["RLD"]).

It's very funny to see the working women in a doorway (or "kamers,” as they're known in Dutch), then stroll along to find a piano bar the next door, then a kamer, followed by a coffeeshop, kamer again, and then a restaurant. Many Kamers, shall we say!!

The RLD is plentiful with men, and couples, and groups, and it’s definitely a high-interest touristic area. Perhaps it is PURE HELL or PURE HEAVEN for certain folks to see the women dressed so scantily & shakin' their "goods" at them, and then there’s me, trying to find a burqa for my upcoming trip to Egypt. Such a contrast!

A VERY funny thing - we have a bar (gay), 🤔🤔, maybe 3 doors down from our hotel called the (close your eyes if you're a good Christian) - the Cockring! 

Ok, so funny story about this bar: we're strollin' down the streets here in the red light district, and there are endless touristy shops of all types, jewelry shops and "coffee-houses" (marijuana boutiques) a plenty, cafes and lots of pizza shops. You get the jist, (everything you could ever want to purchase), so I stop ... looking at this "jewelry" or maybe it was kitchenware, because... you KNOW, most people love household goods. 

James asks," What are you looking at?" I turn to look at him ... after all, wasn’t it OBVIOUS?!  
I was looking at sterling silver table settings, duh!! 🙄😵‍💫🤪 Gees.

It was at this moment that  (*puzzled look*)  I noticed an out of the corner of my eye one of the “napkin holders” around a big dick (sorry Mom & Dad). Would "phallic symbol" be a better word to use here? ... Riddle me that!!?? 🙄😂😱😳😵‍💫. However, it was at that moment that I realized what I initially believed to be LOVELY sterling napkin rings for one’s formal dining table settings, were actually ...ahhh, is there another name? for cockrings?!??!?!?

Needless to say I decided against this table addition, and scuttled off down the alleyway, both of us laughing our faces off.
🤣🤣🤣 Oh the dear!

Such the procrastinator. We leave in the AM for 75 days, a lil prep wouldn't go astray. :)

The last place we`ll be is first on the list, mmm strange uh! Newfoundland will always be my home, and these beautiful people will always be my family. Rather excited to commence this 75-day journey. Not sure if we'll kill each other or enjoy it thoroughly. 

​Life's short, what would it be without adventures.

After we depart on Sept 1, we'll be leaving on a 75-day trip that will take us to:
- Reykjavik, ICELAND; 
- Paris, FRANCE;
- Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS;
- Marseille, FRANCE;
- Rome & Naples, ITALY;
- Catania, SICILY;
- St. Julian's, MALTA;
- Venice, ITALY;
- Lille, Lens, and Bordeaux, FRANCE;
- Munich, GERMANY;
- Budapest, HUNGARY;
- Athens, Patmos, Mykonos, Santorini, Rhodes, Crete, GREECE;
- Istanbul, and Kusadasi, TURKEY; 
- Cairo, Karnak, Luxor, Edfu, EGYPT;
- Amman, Wadi Musa and Petra, JORDAN;
- Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, Massada and the Dead Sea, ISRAEL.

​We're just a BIT excited!!