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Cindy loves koffie! Next
to the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky you can go to Green Daze cafe and say hi to our
nice friend Will and have a Peanut Butter Choc Choc, which is a
fabulous frozen blended mocha with peanut butter flavor and crushed peanut
brittle sprinkled on the whipped cream on top. I had one almost every day
and then at the very end of our stay, Will told us it is the favorite drink of
all the professional ladies in the neighborhood--which happens to be the Red
Light District, if you get my meaning! You can also find awesome coffee at
The Coffee Company in Dam Square just by the Nieuwe Kerk, the big church, not
far from where my pals Norbert and his friends hang out in front of the Royal
Palace. You can get their awesome Bambino drinks hot or frozen and
blended, either way, they pile about a foot of whipped cream on top and send you on your way!
Whatever kind of day you're having, it's can't help but improve with your very
own foot
tall pile of whipped cream! |
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Cindy and Tiki have an afternoon tea
party! Do you see those little macaroon cookies in a pile?
At the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, any time you order tea or coffee,
you get some of those, I must have eaten a thousand while we were
there. We went to the fancy afternoon tea in the
hotel one day and it was amazing, they put all these amazing tiny
little tasty sandwiches in a really unusual container--a big
hollowed out loaf of bread! There were so many treats, we couldn't
even come
close to finishing, which is just how afternoon tea should be. Tiki and I had tea parties in the room, too. I bought a cute
stuffed pig at Hema one day, so he's joining us! You do have
to dress for tea even if you're only having tea for two and one of
you is a cat, I like Tiki's choice of hat, don't you? |
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Cindy and Tiki have fun in Amsterdam!
One day when I was poking around, I came across something exciting,
a calliope playing circus music and a man dancing in front of it who
waved to me to join him and maybe toss some coins. It was such
fun and made my day so special, you could hear it in all the shops,
and as I shopped, it kept moving down the street so I never ran out
of circus music for my outing. |
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Cindy and Tiki take
over for the Accordion Man! When we were staying in Dam
Square, every day, just across the street from the Beekendorf where
you had to pass him if you wanted to go to the shopping streets, a
man sat on the ground playing an accordion! He was almost
always there playing and playing. Sometimes I'd open the
window in the room and sit on the window seat and listen to his
cheery old world tunes floating through the air as a horse
clip-clopped by, it was perfect. |
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Cindy meets Max!
One day as I was running around town having fun, I ran into a giant
banana man named Max and we became friends. I never knew
bananas grunt to say hello! Max was very charming for a banana so I didn't
tell him I had banana ice cream on my cone! |
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