I could do that + yeah but you didn't...

Playlist

Herman Brood and his Wild Romance - My Way: The Hits
Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure
Gilardino - Trascendentia : Complete Studies for Guitar
Jacaszek - Catalogue des Arbres
Nits - Henk
Isaac Hayes - The Best Of The Polydor Years
Refugee - Refugee
Max.Bab - Inner Orbit

Today, off to Amsterdam...

Breakfast was a pastry each at den Haag Centraal Station,,,

...and then, a swift 40 minute journey...

...to Amsterdam Centraal Station...

A walk down into the town with a stop off for coffee in a bar with a Meg the Black Cat look-a-like...

To Dam Square...

We split up and I was looking for Fame, the biggest record store in Holland (or used to be)...

Very disappointing - it's moved to smaller premises and, sadly, had nothing to offer Mr CBQ...

Not to worry - at nearby Velvet Music (where I bought Herman Van Veen yesterday in Delft), there was nice big second hand section, where I picked up discs by further Dutch faves Herman Brood and The Nits...

A walk round the canals to meet up with the Exec Producer...

Second not very well executed pic of a cat today....

We met at Spui and took a tram back towards Centraal Station and then walked over to Jordaan...

...for lunch at de Blaffende Vis (the Barking Fish) - one of our regularly visited Amsterdam bars...

Anne was suitably impressed with my acquisitions - not really...

A stroll around the environs - much better than the British Stag and Hen Party dominated main drag...

Slightly better cat pic...

A tram to Frederiksplein...

..from where...

...it was a short walk to...

...Concerto - definitely the best record shop in the 'Dam...

Anne was able to enjoy a nice coffee in their cafe whilst surfing the net, while your correspondent trawled the second hand section...

I picked up this lot for just twenty of your European Euros...

Post Rock/Soundscapes in a late Talk Talk vein...

Five CDs of contemporary guitar studies...

The best of Isaac Hayes tenure on Polydor...

A two on one by Dutch experimental new wavers, The Nits...

Prog rock from post Nice/pre Yes collaboration...

...and some young German jazzers' take on the first ever space walk...

Further strolling ensued...

To the Rembrandtplein and a set of statues which we'd not seen before for some reason...

The Night Watch...

Time for a beer or two...

...and so, to Het Molenpad, another favourite haunt of the CBQ team...

An excellent, unpictured, canal-side setting

More walking and then a tram to the Stedelijk Modern Art Gallery...

This says it all about Modern Art....

A nice walk through the Museumplein with the Concertgebouw in the background...

A huge statue was being craned into place...

The Rijksmuseum, not visited now for over thirty years, was for a future visit...

Dinner at Bojo - tasty Indonesian again...

...and a last walkabout...

...including passing the Hans Brinker Hotel, where we stayed on our first visit in 1982...

Back to Centraal Station...

..and a train back to Den Haag for a quiet night in...

Highlight of the Day : Concerto...