a late corner view with a view

Hola, bit late showing my face (so to speak) round these parts this week.

Right, just like anywhere else, there are lots of typical souvenirs one can get in Amsterdam and, just like anywhere else, half of those are not even worth your time of day.

Here's a very brief glimpse at some that are not your stereotypical souvenir but that still are well kitsch (a souvenir must) without being totally tacky, if you know what I mean.

The above is a button I'm about to send a friend pinned to a b-day card.

With it we are covering: tulips (check!), Dutch traditional dress including funny cap and clogs (check!)

Speaking of clogs... I had visitors of the parental kind recently so it's pretty good timing Epe chose this theme now (as I had never in my life seen someone make a clog until two weeks ago.) So, without further ado, I give you a clog-making boy and bird-house-clogs (which I find particularly hilarious but then again sometimes I'm very easily amused). Clogs ahoy (check!):

And, last but not least, le souvenir des souvenirs: the postcard (I like this one so much I still don't know whether to send to a friend or pin it to the wall). It's a sunny day this must be Amsterdam (not!)

Here we revisit the traditional Dutch dress arena (including clogs and funny caps, check! check!) but this time we are also introducing the very typical Dutch windmill (check!) and throwing some extra geese in for good measure.

I was about to show you some bicycles, cheese and whores but, you know, I sort of gathered everyone's seen enough bicycles, cheese and whores (not necessarily in that order) in their lives by now, so hey.

Oh and I nearly forgot. By popular demand, a pic of the new place.

All right, I just made that up (the popular demand bit), but instead of doing some paperwork or sorting stuff out (which is what I really should be doing as I've taken the day off to do just that), let me indulge in some procrastination.

This was the view from my new place a couple of weeks ago (one evening while I was hanging out of the window waiting for some bastard delayed handymen).

More corner views for one and all to be found here.