Russian babes go to the Pattaya Beach Club and so do I. 🙂
Russian babes Pattaya Beach Club
Russian babes Pattaya Beach Club at the Pullman hotel, this is the best beach-side bar in Pattaya for Russian beach babes. Happy hour is at 5 pm every day & cocktails cost about $3.
The bikini is a perfect fit
One of my favorite pastime is watching the Russian beach babes walking along the beach while I’m drinking a nice cold beer.
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A quick shower before a swim.
I wonder if I could help her?
Wow! is the only word I can think of.
Live webcam from my balcony at Markland overlooking Pattaya beach in Thailand.
Every time friends come to town or if someone has a birthday we wind up at the Beach Club. The big fellow 2nd from the left is Nathan Corbett who has been world champion in Muay Thai boxing 11 times in 3 different weight divisions.
The best butt in town
Sadly now in 2020 not many Russians are visiting Pattaya.
The scenery does not get much better than this.
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Looks good standing up as well 🙂
Tell that man to stop taking my photo
OK I did get sprung taking photos of this gorgeous Russian babe. However her boyfriend looked a bit of a wuss and I was with my English friend Bill, an ex para military regiment leader who used to be on the boxing team, and still does some bouncing at a couple of venues in Trowbridge. 🙂
My 3 English bodyguards Simon, Bill & Chris.
My back up muscle enjoying some cocktails.
The beautiful Beach Club.
You have a choice between swimming in the ocean or either of the two pools.
Lots of Russians in Wongamat.
Wongamat beach is just north of Pattaya beach, it is quieter and much cleaner.
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Sunset at the Beach Club.
The best place in Pattaya to watch the sunset.
Don’t walk away Natasha
The story of my life, they always seem to be walking away. 🙂
Wongamat Beach
Beach club is in front of the very tall building on the left.
I love a pink bikini
Pink just became my favourite colour. 🙂
It’s time for a swim
Please don’t break the spell, stay right where you are.
Come and join me
Ok, if you insist.
OK guys, photo opportunity
Now anyone can see how gorgeous these Russian babes are, however if you want to find out who are the sexiest beach babes in the world you need to travel down to the southern hemisphere to Brazil, they are the best.
Night at the Beach Club
These high rise buildings surround the Beach Club.
Actually this is Cosy beach, the Russian babes like it here as well.
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Love the bikini
The eye candy does not get much better than this.
Words fail me
All I can say is……….
My favourite selfie
An overcast Friday morning in Pattaya did not stop this princess from going to the beach to take 100 selfies.
Taken March 24 2017.
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Pattaya – Hua Hin Mini Van
If you are in Pattaya and want to go to Hua Hin there is now a daily minivan service, they have offices in Pattaya, Hua Hin and Cha Am, for Hua Hin the mini van leaves at 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and takes 4 hours to get to Hua Hin, priced at only 400baht.
The Pattaya office is on South Pattaya Road, if your heading towards Sukhumvit road go over 3rd Road and past Soi Ko Pai/ Soi Bongkot and it’s on the left hand side at soi 10, which is around 300 meters or more from Sukhumvit Road.
Pattaya Office 088 709 2365
Hua Hin Office 088 709 2364
Cha Am Office 089 254 1399
Wealthy Play St Tropez, a place for sheer opulence, people watching, & great restaurants and bars. Please remember to take your money with you. 🙂
Boules-type games are traditional and popular in France, Italy and Croatia, and are also popular in some former French colonies. In those countries, boules games are often played in open spaces (town squares and parks) in villages and towns. Dedicated playing areas for boules-type games are typically large, level, rectangular courts made of flattened earth, gravel, or crushed stone, enclosed in wooden rails or back boards.
Paella anyone?
The huge place des Lices Market is a kaleidoscope of everything from fruit and veg to antique mirrors and slippers. It’s truly legendary and It is studded with plane trees, cafés and (when the market’s not on) pétanque players.
Saturday is market day in St Tropez
The seaside resort town Saint Tropez is still very popular with the tourists, although the jetset and the in-crowd have long since left it behind. Set on the lovely blue water of the Bay of Saint-Tropez, this modern version of a medieval town is most popular for the line of yachts along the quay, and the facing line of terrace cafés, divided by a parade of strolling tourists.
Look at me, look at me. 🙂
Naturally all the chairs face the footpath so customers can ogle & gawk at the people passing, while pretending not too. 🙂
The famous Cafe de Paris.
There is of course another famous Cafe de Paris in Monte Carlo.
So many restaurants & so little time. 🙂
I guess I’m stating the obvious however you can get far better value for your money by visiting the restaurants a couple of blocks away from the sea front.
The old part of town is quite fascinating.
Behind the cafés, the small streets and old buildings are picturesque, but they’re more popular for the multitude of shops and restaurants than historical significance.
The back streets are interesting
Very interesting back streets of ST Tropez.
Wealthy Play St Tropez
There are always luxury yachts cruising in the area.
Narrow lanes & arches
I’m sure this arch has not changed for hundreds of years.
L’Olive St Tropez
Very good food at L’Olive at 9 Rue Aire du Chemin, 83990 Saint-Tropez.
A very brassy lady
Surely this can’t be Bridgette Bardot. 🙂
Could this be a Trojan Horse?
I really like this sculpture near St Tropez wharf.
Mt travelling companions Deb and Jodie heading for a night out, some guys bought them drinks and Deb in return shouted a round, 110 Euros later, some smelling salts were required for her to recover and fight another day.
There is always someone with a bigger boat.
Imagine the cost of filling this east up with fuel. 🙂
You can really smell the money here. 🙂
Wealthy Play St Tropez”.
Super boat
Certainly not the prettiest boat in the harbour.
If you can’t afford a boat, get a bike.
Not much traffic here so a bike would be a safe way to see the city.
Pattaya Beach Road morning Ballet may be a slight exaggeration, however there is enough material along this stretch for a director to produce 10 ballets. Every morning I walk along Pattaya beach and marvel at the unusual sights, it surely is a page out of life’s rich tapestry.
I walk every day along the beach and take in the sights, have breakfast, read the Bangkok Post then walk back home.
Sometimes you come across some glamorous beach babes, sadly these two don’t qualify in that category.
Does smoking keep your weight down?
Super models sometimes smoke to control their weight, clearly in this case it has not worked.
Some Russian eye candy
Ok, that’s more like it. 🙂
Seagull sculpture on Beach Rd.
Strangely enough I have never seen a seagull on Pattaya Beach Rd, lots of pigeons but no seagulls.
Some shade at the beach
April & May are the two hottest months in Thailand, it is also the time when tides are very low so the beach looks so much better with more sand showing.
Many hundreds of tourists take the boats out to Koh Larn for a day at the beach, most of them return very sunburnt.
Pattaya Beach Road morning Ballet featuring the three Amigos
How cool are these guys?
Pattaya Beach Road morning Ballet
Most morning I tale a 25 minute walk to see the latest Pattaya Beach Road Ballet.
Wot! No chairs or umbrellas?
At last there are some sections of the beach without umbrellas, chairs or greedy unfriendly vendors. Not all of them are unfriendly but many are. There are still lots of umbrellas those people like me who don’t want to sit in the direct sun.
Beach repairs after the storms
It’s a never ending job repairing the beach in the wet season.
Para sailing
Personally I would not do this because I don’t trust the Thai boat drivers, there are always a few people killed each year due to their incompetence.
Hi ho, hi ho, its off to work we go.
It really doesn’t matter they are travelling the wrong way in a one way street, after all this is Pattaya Beach Rd.
New shopping centre between Soi 5 & 6.
It’s called the Bay & after many months only 2 tenants have moves in. Starbucks & McDonalds.
Magnificent tree
In front of The Bay shopping centre, photo taken February 2 2017.
The busses are bringing Chinese tourists to the beach where they crawl aboard the waiting boats to go para-sailing & visit Koh Larn. Since the August 17 bombing in Bangkok and the Shanghai share-market plunge, now in September 2015 it seems the tourists numbers from China have fallen by up to 50%. However now in 2016 they are back in force.
Every day of the year thousands of Chinese tourists head for the boats. This one is grossly overpowered, around 750 HP.
Selfie on Pattaya Beach
A females favourite pastime, when too many selfies is never enough. 🙂
More exercise on Beach Rd
Good to see the lad and his father wearing crash helmets, riding on the footpath can be quite dangerous when selfish pedestrians think they have “right of way”. 🙂
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Jet Ski scammers
Along the Beach Road in Pattaya, often between Soi 10 and Soi 13/4 (entrance to Walking Street), Thai Jet Ski touts will approach the tourist. Most likely time to witness the scam unfolding would be between 5pm – 5:30pm as it is getting dark. Particularly outside Mike Shopping Mall, Royal Garden Plaza, and Soi 13/2 to Soi 13/4. The tourist is required to sign a contract with the Jet Ski operators before they board the Jet Ski and have their fun. Cost is around 700 baht ($20) for thirty minutes. When the tourist returns to the beach the Thai Jet Ski operator will board the Jet Ski and bring it up on to the beach. Here is where the scam starts, as they (theatrically and dramatically) point out the damage and demand that the tourist pay for it, typically ranging anywhere from 30,000 baht ($950) to 70,000 baht ($2,200), but it can be 100,000 baht ($3,180) and up. Of course this damage (deep scrapes on the underside of the Jet Ski, scratches to the paintwork, or a broken plastic bumper) has been there all the time. Often, if not most times, it is a group of tourists that are scammed. More people, more money.
If they use the version of the scam where the tourist boards the Jet Ski when it is already submerged in the water, thus hiding the damage that is already on the underside, the scammers don’t need to cover the damaged areas. The damage is revealed once they bring it on to the shore after the tourist has rented it.More government warnings etc here.
At the emergency meeting in August 2015, Pol. Maj. Piyapong was reported in local media saying that his office received numerous complaints from scam victims that first went to the Pattaya police station only to be ignored. The same press reports also showed that, as far back as 2011, Pattaya mayor Itthiphol Kunpleum said Pattaya’s police were part of the jet ski problem, with corrupt officers assisting scammers… I hope you can now understand what I mean when I call it Pattaya Beach Rd ballet. 🙂
Wan Chai Hong Kong in mid February, it was so cold, you must be joking I thought. Last week the temperature was 18 degrees, when I arrived it was 8. The first stop on my “seven Super Cities” adventure in a city I had not visited since 1980, 34 years ago.
Wan Chai Hong Kong
Wan Chai Hong Kong is one of the busiest commercial areas in Hong Kong with offices of many small and medium-sized companies. Wan Chai North features office towers, parks, hotels and an international conference and exhibition centre. As one of the first areas developed in Hong Kong.
Gloucester Rd Wan Chai
Wan Chai’s Gloucester Road, a east-west trunk route along the northern coast, is connected to Cross-Harbour Tunnel, the first undersea tunnel in Hong Kong. This tunnel is connected to the south by a direct viaduct from its landing point on Hong Kong Island to the Aberdeen Tunnel towards the southern coast.
Wan Chai Hong Kong opposite my hotel
Prostitution has been one of the oldest occupations in Wan Chai. There are numerous historical accounts of women trading sex for western merchandise, especially from visiting sailors who got off the trading ships and visited this area.
Lockhart Rd Wan Chai
In the 1960s, Wan Chai became legendary for its exotic night life, especially for the US servicemen resting there during the Vietnam War.
One Aussie, one Kiwi & 3 Filipinos.
For bars, restaurants and night clubs Wan Chai Hong Kong is a great part of the city. The area towards the western end of Lockhart Road, including a small part of the parallel Jaffe Road, is one of Hong Kong island’s two main bar districts (the other being the more upmarket Lan Kwai Fong in Central). Once considered primarily as a red light district, this area is now more diverse with bars, pubs, restaurants and discos.
A number of the raunchier bars still remain, however, their doorways festooned with women from Thailand and the Philippines. The famous novel and film “The World of Suzie Wong” sets many scenes in this area. The bar district has been popular with visiting sailors and navies, when Fenwick Pier, west of the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, was in use as a military pier.
Wan Chai Hong Kong
Only a 10 minute walk from my hotel to the ferry.
Short ride across the bay
About a 30 minute ferry ride to Star terminal at Kowloon.
Hong Kong bus
Or is it a tram?
View of Hong Kong island from the ferry.
The island is home to many of the most famous sights in Hong Kong, such as “The Peak“,Ocean Park, many historical sites and various large shopping centres. The mountain ranges across the island are also famous for hiking. The northern part of Hong Kong Island together with Kowloon forms the core urban area of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong island from the ferry.
The island is often referred to locally as “Hong Kong side” or “Island side”. This description was formerly applied to many locations (e.g. ‘China-side’ or even ‘Kowloon Walled City-side’) but is now only heard in this form and ‘Kowloon side’, suggesting the two sides of the harbour.
Star Ferry pier in Kowloon
Quite a contrast between these two vessels.
Star Ferry Pier
The “Star” Ferry Company, is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, betweenHong Kong Island and Kowloon. It was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, adopting its present name in 1898.
Kowloon
Large-scale development of Kowloon began in the early 20th century, with the construction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and the Kowloon Wharf, but because of Kowloon’s close proximity to Kai Tak Airport, building construction was limited by flight paths. As a result, compared to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon has a much lower skyline.
One Peking building
Located at the heart of the Tsimshatsui district, One Peking has stunning panoramic views of Victoria harbour.
Wan Chai Hong Kong Lotus Vietnamese restaurant
Good food and service at this nice Vietnamese restaurant at 118 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai Hong Kong.
Mango & sticky at the Lotus.
One of my favourite deserts in Wan Chai winter Hong Kong.
Yokohama Japan super city, the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo, and most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.
Yokohama is really worth a visit, much of the city was destroyed on September 1, 1923 by the Great Kantō earthquake. The Yokohama police reported casualties at 30,771 dead and 47,908 injured.
A great looking building
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Yokohama station
Yokohama is a only 30 minutes from Tokyo on the metro, this mural is at the station.
My friend Kayo in Yokohama
We walked a few kms past the Intercontinental hotel to the cruise terminal at Minato Mirai 21, then onto Chinatown for lunch.
Car Sharing Service
Japan’s first one-way car sharing service with a large number of vehicles. The scheme, which enables the company to trial new concepts for mobility within urban areas, has been jointly organized with the City of Yokohama. Drivers will be able to rent units of NISSAN New Mobility CONCEPT, an ultra-compact electric vehicle. They will be able to drop off the car at a different location from where they started, enabling one-way travel.
Yokohama Japan super city Yamashita Park
Yamashita Park on the waterfront which opened in 1930. Much of Yokohama was destroyed on 1 September 1923 by the Great Kanto earthquake. Yokohama was rebuilt, only to be destroyed again by thirty-odd U.S. air raids during World War II. An estimated seven or eight thousand people were killed in a single morning on 29 May 1945 in what is now known as the Great Yokohama Air Raid, when B-29s firebombed the city and in just one hour and nine minutes reduced 42% of it to rubble.
Goddess of Water Statue in Yamashita Park
This section of the park is only a short walk to Chinatown.
Seagulls resting on Hikawa Maru
Hikawa Maru is a Japanese ocean liner that Yokohama Dock Company built for Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha. She was launched on 30 September 1929 and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930.
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse is a historical building that is used as a complex that includes a shopping mall, banquet hall, and event venues. The complex, officially known as the Newport Pier Tax Keeping Warehouse.
The coast guard
Lots of interesting ships to see in Yokohama Japan super city.
Cosmo Clock 21
Cosmo Clock 21 is an enormous Ferris Wheel clock in Yokohama, that, at 353 ft. (107 m), was the world’s tallest Ferris Wheel for eight years, from it’s construction in 1989 (for the ‘89 Yokohama Exposition) to 1997, and has been the world’s largest clock from 1989 to the present.
Chinatown
Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown not only in Japan but also in Asia (larger than China-towns in both Kobe and Nagasaki) and it is one of the largest in the world.
Yokohama super city
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Shinjuku Tokyo’s Business Center located in Tokyo Metropolis. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building.
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is a 204-meter, 50-story educational facility located in the Nishi-Shinjuku district in Shinjuku. The building is home to three educational institutions.
Shinjuku is the busiest train station in the world
West of the station
Nishi-Shinjuku: The area west of Shinjuku Station, historically known as Yodobashi, is home to Tokyo’s largest concentration of skyscrapers. Several of the tallest buildings in Tokyo are located in this area, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, KDDI Building and Park Tower.
From Skyscrapers to tiny restaurants
There is an incredible diversification in Shinjuku, everything from modern skyscrapers to tiny “hole in the wall” restaurants.
Meet my new best friend
Here I am with y new best friend in the little “no name” restaurant that sits only 3 people, 4 at a squeeze.
Food was average, wine was excellent
I was not worried about the food being very average & overpriced, the experience was well worth it. My friend Kayo had given me a lovely present, a nice bottle of red & a bottle of sake. So I drank the red at this tiny “no name” restaurant.
Here is my present from Kayo
Japanese people are so nice, they love to give you presents. I will look forward to returning the favor when Kayo visits Thailand in August.
My friend Kayo
We met on the Gold Coast in Australia 10 years ago and it was great to catch up again in Tokyo.
Piss Alley is a quaint TokyoStreet in Shinjuku which really has a distinctive personality. Known also as Memory Lane however I think Piss Alley has a far better sound to it.
Kabukicho Tokyo the sleepless town, an entertainment and red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Kabukicho is the location of many host and hostess clubs, love hotels, shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, and is often called the “Sleepless Town”
Kabukicho Tokyo has transformed from a residential area to a world famous red-light district housing over three thousand bars, nightclubs, love hotels, massage parlours, hostess clubs and the like. Although referred here as a “red light district”, there are no red lights in the literal sense with prostitutes in the windows as in Amsterdam.
According to a spokesperson of Metropolitan Tokyoin 2004, there are more than 1,000 yakuza members in Kabukicho, and 120 different enterprises under their control.
Entering the new millennium, laws were more strictly enforced and patrols became more frequent. These, adding to the installation of fifty closed-circuit cameras in May 2002, reduced criminal activities here, amidst controversy.
In 2004, the police undertook an operation clamping down on illegal clubs and brothels, causing many to go out of business. Also, there is a movement to rid this area of the yakuza (“bad hand” gangs), known as the Kabukicho Renaissance.
Kabukicho Tokyo Neon lights everywhere
Kabukicho Tokyo was a great place to stay as there is always something to see & do. Also it is close to Piss Ally, one of my favorite spots inTokyo.
An Australian influence?
You gotta love Wombat herbs. 🙂
Kabukicho Tokyo DVD shop
A typical Kabukicho neon.
One of many love hotels
Kabukicho is the largest red light district in Asia
Another love hotel
You have the option to pay for a short stay or all night, up to you.
It really is the town that never sleeps
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but for me Kabukicho Tokyo is the world’s brightest city.
Dozens of sex workers have been infected with coronavirus in Japan’s biggest red light district sparking fears hundreds of customers may have been infected with the killer disease.
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Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles are what comes to mind when I think of this great city. The red light district attracts tourists like moths to a flame. Marijuana is freely available if that’s your thing, & every time you walk down the street you are in danger of being run down by Cyclists who believe the roads & footpaths were built exclusively for them to use.
In Amsterdam, this is the only windmill I saw, I know there are many more in the country however my 6 days were spent exploring the city.
Central Station
My journey started & ended here at the very busy Central station. I arrived by train from the airport and my wonderful B & B was only a five minute walk, then 6 days later I caught the fast train to Brussels.
Did I mention bicycles by any chance?
Authorities say there are well over 600.000 bikes in Amsterdam. The population is 747,290 in Amsterdam proper, and 2,158,592 in the metropolitan area.
Opposite Central station
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than one hundred kilometers of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.
Lots of good restaurants
There are hundreds of restaurants to choose from in Amsterdam, just wander around until one catches your eye.
Fresh seafood in Amsterdam.
THE FRESH SEAFOOD LOOKED FANTASTIC.
Late night cafe
This is one of my favourite Amsterdam photos, I was wandering around the back alleys looking for somewhere to dine.
Ava Thomas, Italian restaurant
This Italian restaurant was the one I chose, nice food at a reasonable price.
The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper — one of the world’s best-known Cannabis cafés — is no longer selling cannabis, hash, or related products. The coffee shop located in landmark building across from Central Station, is one of the first of more than two dozen such shops in and around the Red Light District that are to be closed down over the next few years.
Amsterdam want to create a “grand entrance” — Amsterdam’s ‘visiting card’ — to include high quality hotels, shops and restaurants — and coffee shops simply don’t fit into that picture. To make this ‘grand entrance’ a reality, in December 2007 Amsterdam introduced Coalition Project 1012. Named after the postal code for downtown Amsterdam, the project is designed to clean up the entire medieval center of the city. That includes the Red Light District, where the city has been working to take back control over the area from what one alderman referred to as ‘riff-raff.’
The project’s goals are to ban window prostitution from all but two locations, close down businesses set up with (or ‘susceptible to the involvement of’) white-washed money, reduce the number of coffee shops in the area, combat organized crime, and to promote the ‘Red Carpet’ vision.
At the introduction of Project 1012, then-alderman Lodewijk Asscher said that Amsterdam wants to recapture the historic city center in order to “give it back to the Amsterdammers.” Clearly, it’s not just the locals the City council was thinking about, but also well-heeled tourists more interested in fine dining and upscale shopping than in using soft drugs. Sadly if this eventuates Amsterdam will never be the same. NB: Coffeeshop (yes, one word) is a Dutch euphemism for establishments where soft drugs are legally sold and used. Enjoy this while you can.
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles
De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam and consists of a network of alleys containing approximately three hundred one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights. These “kamers” are the most visible and typical kind of red light district sex work in Amsterdam and are a large tourist attraction. Amsterdam sex drugs, you can count on it.
De Wallen Amsterdam
I imagine this whole district will just move to another location, Amsterdam can’t afford to lose the millions of tourists that come to see the RLD with Amsterdam sex drugs & rock & roll. 🙂
Amsterdam sex drugs & rock & roll
It really is a wonderful city.
Window shopping at its best
May I remind you when I think of Amsterdam I think of sex drugs & bicycles. 😆
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles
As with other countries, estimates regarding the total number of prostitutes vary. Most sources place this number between 15,000 and 30,000. An article published in 1997 in the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality claimed that the total number of prostitutes in the Netherlands was about 15,000 to 20,000. CATW has stated that there were 30,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands, citing “Sex tax Ticks off Dutch,” Associated Press, 14 October 1997. According to Radio Netherlands, in 1999, there were estimated to be 25,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands, with 12,500 working at any one time at a total of 6,000 locations. A later study by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 estimated that there were a total of between 20,000 and 25,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands
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Watching the boats
This bridge was 30 meters from my B & B and 20 meters from my favorite restaurant, De Belhamel.
De Belhamel
I had dinner twice here and on two other evenings called in to the delightful bar for a nightcap.
Lamb at De Belhamel
The Australian lamb at De Belhamel was magnificent, put this delightful restaurant on your list.
De Belhamel bar
That’s my red wine sitting on the bar, this was my compulsory stop before retiring for the night.
de belhamel is Dutch for “the rascal” – literally translated, but the Dutch translate it as “naughty child”
My friend visits in September 2015
The blonde lady Joyce Weir has been a friend of mine for over 40 years, I told her about this great restaurant, I’m so pleased she took her friends there, naturally they loved it. 🙂
One of the 2500 house boats in Amsterdam
All year long canal tours show people from all over the world how amazing the historical canal houses of Amsterdam look from the water. Some people enjoy this view every day from their own houseboat. Holland counts many houseboats, but Amsterdam holds the record with approximately 2500 houseboats.
Always lots of activity on the canals.
There is never a dull moment in Amsterdam.
Stout Restaurtant
Another good restaurant close to where I was staying.
Nice atmosphere.
TripAdvisor rate it #109 of 3,243 Restaurants in Amsterdam.
A pie at Stout.
With such a high rating it seems a shame to only have a pie, however I only found out about the rating when I was back home. 🙂
Cafe de Prins
I had lunch here twice, good food, cold beer and a great spot for people watching.
Cafe de Prins
The perfect lunch. 😎
The traffic can wait
Another way for the tourists to see Amsterdam.
Science Center NEMO
NEMO proves that there is a fun way to learn more about science and technology. The largest science center in the Netherlands has five floors full of exciting things to do and discover. All your senses will be stimulated by exhibitions, theatre performances, films, workshops and demonstrations.
The replica of the three masted “Amsterdam”
The replica of the three masted “Amsterdam”, a large vessel of the Dutch East India Company, which in its maiden journey to Batavia sank in a storm in the English Channel in winter of 1749, stands high above the waters of Ij Bay, directly at the museum quay. The wreck of the ship has been discovered off the English coast in 1969, and the museum replica has been completed in 1990. Visiting the ship, you may see how small and primitive spaces were to house 350 people during the ship’s journey, with more comfortable but equally minute quarters for the ship’s captain and officers.
A wonderful B & B
Of all the places I stayed on my “seven super cities” adventure, my B & B in Amsterdam was the best accommodation by a long shot. There are only 2 apartments in the building beside the delightful couple Tony & Loes who live there.
The breakfast room
The location was perfect, only 10 minutes walk to Central Station and close to shops & restaurants.
What a fabulous city.
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles is one of my favourite posts, I hope you enjoyed it.
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Historic London pub on the Thames at Wapping is The Prospect of Whitby. It lays claim to being the site of the oldest riverside tavern, dating from 1520. It was formerly known as the Devil’s Tavern, on account of its dubious reputation. Before that it was officially called The Pelican. All that remains from the building’s earliest period is the 400 year old stone floor. In former times it was a meeting place for sailors, smugglers, cut-throats and footpads. A footpad is an archaic term for a robber or thief specializing in pedestrian victims. The term was used widely from the 16th century until the 19th century, but gradually fell out of common use. A footpad was considered a low criminal, as opposed to the mounted highwayman who in certain cases might gain fame as well as notoriety Why does this Historic London pub deserve it’s own post in my blog? Quite simple really, I have so many fond memories dating back 50 years when I was very young enjoying my first great overseas adventure.
The Prospect of Whitby in December 1964
Here is a classic photo of my friends at the Prospect of Whitby 50 years ago in 1964. There were Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, South Africans, English, and the very drunk lady in the bottom right hand corner was an opera singer from Yugoslavia. 😆
The guy with the pint & mouth open was my best friend & travelling companion, he went back to Oz before me & joined the army. Kieth Wagstaff with the beard was a kiwi who I travelled through Europe with. I have my arm around Shirley a cute pommie I was taking out occasionally. Simon in check jacket was Canadian.
Surely David Herd should be there.
I’m very disappointed my name is not on the sign. 🙂
Fire place at the Prospect of Whitby.
I don’t think this Historic London pub has changed much in 50 years, however the times I was there it was always packed to the rafters.
Historic London pub, naturally I ordered a Fosters
In the 17th century, it became the hostelry of choice of “Hanging” Judge Jeffreys, scourge of the Monmouth Rebellion. He lived nearby and a noose hangs by a window, commemorating his custom. He was chased by anti-Royalists into the nearby Town of Ramsgate, captured and taken to the Tower for his own safety. According to legend, criminals would be tied up to the posts at low tide and left there to drown when the tide came in. Execution Dock was actually by Wapping Old Stairs and generally used for pirates.
Lots of timber walls & creaking floors
Following a fire in the early 19th century, the tavern was rebuilt and renamed The Prospect of Whitby, after a Tyne collier that used to berth next to the pub. The Prospect was listed Grade II in December 1950. If you want to visit an Historic London pub this is one of the best. On the opposite side of the road (Wapping Wall) is the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, now an arts centre and restaurant.
Nooks & crannies everywhere
The public house features briefly in an episode of Only Fools And Horses. When Uncle Albert goes missing in one episode, Del Boy and Rodney travel around London looking for him. Nicholas Lyndhurst is shown in one scene walking out of the pub. There is also a scene from the 1956 film D-Day the Sixth of June starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd where Taylor’s character is seen with Dana Wynter’s character having drinks together during the Second World War in London.
Historic London pub on the Thames
Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed from here in 1533 in a disastrous attempt to discover the North-East Passage to China.
100 meters from the Prospect of Whitby is Shadwell Basin
A lovely lake just up the road from the pub, you can see Westminster in the background. Shadwell Basin is the most significant body of water surviving from the historical London Docks. It is situated on the north side of the river Thames east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge and west (upstream) of Limehouse. Unlike the rest of the London Docks which has been landfilled, Shadwell Basin, the most easterly part of the complex, has been retained.
It is now a maritime square of 2.8 hectares used for recreational purposes (including sailing, canoeing and fishing) and is surrounded on three sides by a waterside housing development designed by British architects MacCormac, Jamieson, Prichard and Wright. The residential buildings are four and five storeys with façades of alternating open arches and enclosed structure, echoing the scale of traditional 19th century dockside warehouses, with a colonnade at quayside. Shadwell Basin is a popular public route for cyclists, joggers and pedestrians with a walkway alongside the water as part of the linked open spaces and canals between the river and Hermitage Basin near St Katharine Docks to the west.
Historic London pub
To receive my latest posts please follow me on Twitter Follow @David_Herd Finally back to the 60s, the first photo is travelling to our favorite Historic London pub in Wapping on the tube, everybody is well dressed and in good shape. The 2nd photo is at the pub getting stuck into it. Finally we are all heading home to Earle’s court totally flyblown. 😆
Historic London pub
The pub has had many a TV or film appearances, even a feature in Only Fools and Horses. It is voted as one of the best Historic pubs in London, so a must visit.
On the way to Wapping
Everybody is quiet and well behaved.
At the pub
Things get messy very quickly.
Heading home
Totally flyblown.
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Piccadilly Earls Court are great parts of London to explore and watch the passing parade. I like to stay in Earle’s Court because there are many hotels & I can take the underground straight from Heathrow.
You can buy a one day ticket for the underground for around 9 Quid which gives you unlimited travel, including to or from Heathrow.
Mowbray Court Hotel
Just around the corner is the Mowbray Court Hotel, the rooms are rather small but the price is right and the staff are very helpful, throw in free wi fi & it’s the perfect place for a traveler on a budget. The underground is so convenient, you can ride the tube direct from Heathrow or Piccadilly Earls Court.
I don’t often dine in Indian restaurants, however after reading the Trip Adviser review I visited Marsala Zone and enjoyed the food & the excellent service. Ranked 1,335 of 18,211 restaurants in London.
Convent Gardens
I saw Les Miserables a few years ago and admit I was a little disappointed compared to other musicals I have seen.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Piccadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills, or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honor of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The circus lost its circular form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.
Tour buses travel to Piccadilly Earls court
The “hop on, hop off” bus is a great way to see London.
Harrods
The store occupies a 5-acre site and has over one million square feet of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe.
Harrods food hall
Up to 300,000 customers visit the shop on peak days, comprising the highest proportion of customers from non-English speaking countries of any department store in London. More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods.
Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace
Guard Mounting, a formal ceremony in which sentries providing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries.
Changing of the Guard
I must confess I don’t really know if this was the “Changing of the Guard” ceremony or some other British pomp, however the crowd was there in thousands. You can spend weeks around Kensington Piccadilly Earls Court, there are so many great places to see & explore.
London 1964
I thought I would throw this in for no particular reason. 🙂
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One of my favourite songs about London.
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