This weekend was sublime! For the first time I got some sunshine and we are talking real sunshine! Temperatures rose up to 30 degrees and it was just like summer. It is nearly November and I can only guess how this city will be in July!
We decided to do some sightseeing so we went to the Royal Palace, the Opera building, Plaza Mayor etc. All the regulars. The collection of photos were taken during these days. The palace is really something else. It is right up there with the great palaces of the world. We secretly (and illegally) joined a Spanish tour (with paying, listening Italians..the woman got rather frustrated with them and happily included Carmen and me in the tour)
On Sunday we went to the market and there were more people than in China, it was crazy. The Amsterdam Albert Cuyp looks like a joke compared to this gigantic market full of legal, illegal, cheap, fake, expensive stalls. It is typical to go shopping (Carmen bought shoes...of course!) and then go for tostas ( long to seriously consider ordering. toasted bread with topping, the best: gambas with ailoli). Unluckily the queue for the tostas was too long to even seriously consider placing an order.
The weekend also saw the arrival of our flatmate, Herman. Good man. We are having dinners together, watching movies etc. He works for MicroSoft and knows a loooot about computers, actually..I think he is one. It is good that we get along. Together with a Belgium friend of his we watched the Argentinean movie 'Nuevas Reinas'. Although totally in Spanish and no subtitles I enjoyed it a lot and you should all watch it..
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