I believe that Kay and I will remember different things about Amsterdam. She will predominantly remember the canals, and indeed they are beautiful. I will predominantly remember the lengths to which one has to go to get electricity out of a Dutchman. The image at right shows the kit required to charge an iBook when you are in a hotel room whose sole power point is the one in the wall behind the TV. Good thing I always travel with patchcords and a screwdriver.
The place is desperately picturesque and picaresque at once.
Boats, bridges and bicycles abound.
Like many European cities there is a wonderful public transport
system including subways and trams, as well as tiny
cobbled streets with a wide variety of boutique shops.
Here you can see a tram entering a street so narrow
that the up and down tracks must overlap (they do not join)
so that trams must go in only one direction at a time.
Kay attended a number of Museums.
Jonathan attended EuMW.
It was the trade exhibition that
brought the most interest. Photographed in front of a Phaser
you can here see Jonathan and Loren, the people most responsible for
its existence and its fruition as a product.
The small box attached to the front closest to Jonathan is a SparkPlug
comb generator, another Scott concept.