Vietnam 36th Anniversary 2024

Amsterdam and Vondelpark 35th Anniversary 2023 Belgium (Brussels) is new country. Revisit Amsterdam & Paris💕Let's start with Amsterdam

Statue of Rembrandt in the Rembrandtplein our "neighborhood" over the years: Smokey, Bush Doctor, Coco's Outback, 3 Sisters, Boster hotel (used to be The Thorbeck). This year we stayed at the Conscious (saves water and energy, the breakfasts are farm fresh!) and the NH Amsterdam Flower Market hotel (balcony is important!) 

The Swans are back! They were gone for years. (We must not be the only ones who missed the swans)

This outdoors chessboard has been here for years. It is outside the Hard Rock Cafe which we've visited many times...wherever we travel, if they have a Hard Rock Cafe, we visit! (and it's a looong list - we always get a T-shirt (city shirt)

I can't say enough good things about the Vodelpark in Amsterdam. To keep up my exercise, I ran here two times...total heaven each time. Incredible lakes and landscaping. Parrots in the trees and these cool "bluebirds."  Dogs everywhere running free and playing. Lots for kids. Many bikers, walkers, joggers and just plain admirers.

 

Brussels

 

Paris.

Notre Dame is still under construction after 2019 fire :(

Paris restaurant. If you want the menu in English scan this...

Marie Antoinette's head was cut off here, at the base of the Luxor obelisk that Napoleon later stole and transported from Egypt (how it was carried is enscripted in gold on the column) 

President Macron is in big trouble for delaying Social Security for the people. More examples later...

                                             Paris marched in support of the women in Iran

This is not a fallen tree. It is a sculpture.

Musee de Orsay

Musee de Orsay