Busy Sunday @ Westerpark [ Neighborhood food market + Cannabis Liberation Day party ]

This Sunday the sun was shinning and Westerpark was packed with different smells and interesting people.

First there was the Neighborhood food market - a bunch of booths with a diversity of foods. I went for Mexican food and my soulmate went for the well known famous burgers in Amsterdam: The Young Pretenders burgers. I really enjoyed taking photos there except it was so packed sometimes it was hard to get that spur of the moment shot.

Right down the path there was a Cannabis Liberation day party - I don't really understand why there is a party for that but yep there was one! You could smell the weed everywhere. There were many booths; most of them were booths giving out free stuff other booths were snacks to kill the munchies. There was a lot more space to take photos but I was a little hesitant. Its a whole different crowd and I wasn't sure how people would feel about me taking photos of them with a joint in their hand.

I was really amused by the whole party in itself, they were giving out FREE space cake, there was this super mellow band playing, people walked around carrying a cannabis plant (wherever they got that from) and there was a bouncy castle for kids. WHAT?! I was amused. Still am.

Sundays like this are what makes Amsterdam, Amsterdam. There is no other place in the world where you can eat Mexican, Indian, Chinese, etc ... food in the sun, in the park, and right down the path have a CANNABIS party. 

I love you Amsterdam, keep the sun coming!

Here are the pics I got to take. Enjoy!

PS: Can you guess which ones were taken at the food market and which ones were taken at the Cannabis party? ;-)

Rolling Kitchen Festival

This year was our third year off to the Rolling Kitchen festival. (You can check last years post here)

Rolling Kitchens is probably my soul mates and I favorite food festival in Amsterdam.

There were so many “food trucks” this year; the festival has grown! Ah I love it!

Unfortunately, the weather didn’t help much, at least on the two days we went, but it was still relatively packed.

We went at 1pm – the time it opens to make sure there was enough space to click away!

If you haven’t been here yet it is a must go! However it ended today so it’s a must go for 2014 ;) Here are the clicks from this weekend!

Enjoy!

Queens day @ Westerpark

This year was the last Queens day for probably a very very long time ;)

Last year my soul-mate and I learned our lesson on how packed the city center is so we went to the park this year.

I thought the park would be relatively packed but surprisingly it was emptier than on a regular weekend.

Here are some clicks of the few people there.

Enjoy!

420 @ Westerpark

As most of you know today was 420 the well-known “weed day”.

Well I live in Amsterdam, so how does it work with a day for smoking weed when you can smoke weed every day? I had to investigate! So I went to the park; things were calm and no one was smoking. I went to Westerpark which is on the West side of Amsterdam. However, I do hear that at Vondelpark, they celebrate this day. But at the park I was at people enjoyed the sun instead.

Here are today's clicks!

Manon Planting @ Waterstones

For the people that read my blog and also know me outside of the web you probably have heard of Manon Planting. 

A new video of her will be out soon soon!

My soul-mate usually makes the magic: recording, editing, filming... This time, due to his job, I had to do the filming for her new video. With my soul-mates hand-made....steadicam!

Of course I couldn't resist some still shots of her so here are the pictures I took. 

A special thanks to Waterstones book store for letting us use their window with an AWESOME view!

As soon as the video is done I will update it onto this post.

Until then, enjoy the clicks!

Look whats out!!! Manon Planting in Amsterdam - Official music video for her Coldplay - The Scientist cover