It's open monument day in amsterdam, so there are over 60 buildings open to the public this weekend that are closed for the rest of the year. my friend from work and I had planned to explore some of them on saturday, but when I got to our meeting place, I realized I had forgotten my phone at home and I couldn't find him. Eventually I had to go home and do some grocery shopping instead. Did a load of laundry (now that I have laundry detergent) and got mostly unpacked. Today we tried again and eventually met up and saw a few of the buildings. The tours were in dutch so neither of us got much from them (he's from sardinia) but some of it was quite interesting. They all close up at 5pm so we only saw a few but afterwards he took me to a brewery that is part of a large iconic windmill near work and we had 9% beer (red, and quite tasty, he was introduced to it by the scottish intern working at Tekton before me), ate european cheese (very fresh) and sausage (very fatty - but delicious) and chatted about work and school and canada and italy. good weekend :)
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