A GO train leaves Mimico GO station westbound, with a wall of condos behind it.

I biked up to this spot on the weekend during the long heat wave that finally came to an end yesterday. It was mostly uphill, so on the way home, it was mostly downhill, which was nice!

It was pretty gusty up there, and made me wish I had spent twice the money back in 2019 to get the lens with IS, but at the same time, that's a lot of money for a lens, given that photography is my hobby and not my job. So, non-IS lens it is!

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An Amsterdam streetcar passes by Westerkerk on a dark grey morning in the winter of 2020.
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By this point I had noticed that some of the buildings along the canal across from my hotel looked like gingerbread houses. Unfortunatelhwhuy (the way I pronounce that word lately), I don't have any good pics of those buildings.

Anyway, I see that I've gotten away from the trip narrative while posting these photos from Amsterdam. Earlier in the day, after I'd put my laundry in the washer and before setting out to see the big windmill, I set out to buy a postcard for my brother. I'd bought one for my wife in London; my father in Bruges, and my mother in Antwerp, so this was the next logical step. Two workers in one souvenir store were talking about one of them having an unknown illness, which I presumed to be the new coronavirus, so I got the fuck out of there, and eventually found another store that sold magnets, postcards, and stamps. I bought them, went back to the laundromat, and read my book in the touristy alleyway outside while holding up my umbrella.

I walked back along Damrak/Rokin to the hotel, ate a donut and some Belgian mini-muffins (so many carbs), and then I headed out to see some sights, including the windmill.
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A cyclist tries to stay ahead of a streetcar with rainwater blasting out the sides...will she make it?

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A Series 12G Amsterdam streetcar pulls away. According to Wikipedia, these were delivered in 1990-1991, and were retired in January 2021, just ten months after I took this video.

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