Amsterdam in Four Days

We arrived in Amsterdam on Wednesday, Aug. 22 in the morning hours along with my good friend Hervey.
We were in Amsterdam for four nights and stayed in a few hostels meeting cool travelers.
Here’s a quick video I put together of the things we saw.

Music by MusSck
New friends from Spain. From left to right. (Friend Victor we met at hostel, me, beautiful Dunia, and my friend Hervey.) Victor was super cool with us, he showed us the local supermarket to help us save money, as we were on a budget.

Amsterdam is such a beautiful city. I wish I could live there for a summer, it was some of the best weather I have ever experienced, although while walking one evening we got rained on and had to take cover under a tree.
To truly experience the city like a local you have to ride a bike. Riding a bike took me back to childhood, and also made me wonder why the hell I don’t ride a bike back home.

The street art of Amsterdam is everywhere.

Not sure if it’s normal to park your bike like that.

We stayed in a five bedroom room and this was our crew for one night, and the funnest one. We were cracking up at this picture. All I can do is laugh every time I see it. (The young Aussie lads, in the middle and far right.)

Thanks for stopping by. Here’s the rest of the pics.

Daytrip to DC

This past Wednesday (Aug. 15) I took a day trip to the nation’s capital with my brother.

We landed around noon and immediately headed over to Shaw neighborhood (Little Ethiopia) via the metro and stopped at an Ethiopian Restaurant called Zenebech Injera.
We ordered Doro Wat which is chicken stew with a hard-boiled egg, and injera which is a spongy flat bread all eaten with the hands. The food was delicious, I specially liked the spongy bread, but it filled me quickly. The red stew reminded me of Mexican “mole”.

Here’s some of the photos I took around the neighborhood.

Around the same neighborhood, we stopped at Som Records vinyl store. If you’re ever in DC and you are a vinyl collector I really recommend you to stop here. Music selections range from rock, jazz, reggae, brasilia, country, funk, and a $1 section! Overall, a great place to dig.

Short on time, we walked around the Washington Monument area before heading back to the airport.

Bro on left.

Lincoln Memorial (As close as we were getting, too far to walk)

Reporting reporting from Chihuahua, Mexico

I had a nice written paragraph but the Wi-Fi here disconnected, so I’m redoing this quickly, plus it’s steaming in this hotel lobby.
Here’s some pictures.

Flight to Chihuahua was four hours late. I arrived close to midnight.

Movies and Music lately (Eyeballs)

So here we go, it’s been awhile, a month and days to be exact since I last posted something. But who is really reading, right? Eyeballs.

A couple of weeks ago I bought my first Vinyls, it had to be a reggae album, yeah, 96 Degrees In the Shade album by 3rd World.

And a random artist I heard once in a Thievery Corporation song, Herb Alpert, come to find later he is a legend with the trumpet. The only thing is, I did a rookie mistake in vinyl shopping. I wasn’t aware of some vinyls that come in singles, and that’s what Herb Alpert’s Rise was. But it was worth the $3.99, no wonder it was cheaper. I can’t remember the other song on the other side…but it’s also good.

On other note, I watched a documentary that will inspire you to travel, it sure has given me a push towards that goal of mine to keep travelling, even if it’s only for a couple of days. I need to see, I need to experience new places,A Map For Saturday is a wonderful documentary, 10/10 in my book. Only if I could do what that guy accomplishes, travel for a year non-stop, but I need a bigger bankroll.
A Map For Saturday Trailer

Another movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, a Swedish film, Noomi Rapace is beautiful and one hell of an actress. I give the movie 9/10. Check out the trailer The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

I’m always searching for new music, and in this post I will feature Jóvilágvan, a band living in Hungary, not to sure about that, but anyways subscribe to their channel here—->, Jóvilágvan’s youtube page and click the like button, share them on facebook and you know the drill. I’m a fan, for sure. Thank you.