Thirty Something Hobbies

I've not been just not posting, we've been away in Amsterdam! After the chaos at work of the last few weeks we got away for a very relaxing long weekend and feel much refreshed for it! It was the second time we'd been to Amsterdam and I love the city for just wandering around stopping every so often to enjoy the European cafe culture - Saturday afternoon sharing a bottle of wine, Sunday morning coffees - before meandering a bit further along the canals and shady streets.

Here's Paul stopping to enjoy the sunshine on one of the bridges

And here's a very familiar site in Amsterdam - lots and lots of bikes! in fact you do need to be very careful in the main areas as they come from every direction! (that's Paul and Andy to the left lost in random boys conversation before noticing I wasn't with them and turning round to say "are you still with us?") Going away with your hubby and one of his best mates might seem a bit odd but actually works quite well!

And here's some lizards (not real) but I just loved this little bit of grass with the lizard statues completely randomly with no explanation!

And in other news - The Ipod's back fixed!!! much relief - we missed it, we put it on totally random and to celebrate it played a most bizarre mix of Goldie lookin' Chain (I do share the pod with Paul you understand) followed by Bing Crosby's White Christmas followed by The Stranglers then Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon and continued in this strange mix for some time - anyone with an Ipod will be familiar with the random choice where it manages to follow on each track fairly evenly but choosing a particular artist each day that it pops in a track from about every 3 or 4 tracks just to let you know what mood it's in!?!