Karlovy Vary Refreshment

I had wanted to visit the architecturally rich, resort town of Karovy Vary in the Czech republic since a saw a picture of it in a coffee table book a couple of decades ago. But I didn't count on it being so hot! We must have hit it during a heat wave (like much of our European travels). So we pulled over for some refreshment to get out bearings. I liked the way the beer in the glass (very dainty for a beer glass) acted like a lens, inverting the building behind.

Dutch-East-India Connection

Discovered this Indonesian sidewalk eatery on one of the main arteries in Amsterdam near the Rijksmuseum — Djanoko — What a spread! Sitting at a little sidewalk table on a pleasant summer day — you couldn't really do much better. We discovered a fair number of Indonesian restaurants in Holland — I guess there's still an old colonial relationship going back to the Dutch-East Indies trading days.