A Portuguese artist tours in Amsterdam

In the final weeks of October Flavio was in Amsterdam giving a small tour.

In 7 days he performed in 6 places.

I obviously took the advantage of taking pictures of some of his gigs.

Also, he recorded a live video at Vondelpark with Manon Planting.

The song is called: Red lights.

Can you guess which city inspired it? ;)

Here is the video and also the pictures below.

Special thanks to my soulmate for clicking the final Waterhole pic!

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 

The weirdest thing at Dam Square

Yesterday it was a beautiful sunny day in Amsterdam and my rock star friend, Manon Planting was with me to enjoy it!

We first started off by going to the Amsterdam cat boat on the Singel canal. I go there every month until one day I will finally have an apartment where I can take one home!

After, we parked our “Ferraris” (Bikes) in the Dam Square and went to this cute silly little store called The Condomerie which has all these funny condoms in different colors and designs.

The sun was still shinning and we were walking around the Dam when a young adult, walked up to Manon and started making conversation with her. It was in Dutch so she later told me he was just making normal conversation and bluntly asked her age. We then kept observing that he was going around talking to random girls and reporting to an older man maybe in his mid-20s. He would talk to a girl, report and go back to another girl and talk again.

This really caught our interest so we kept observing we soon found out there was a group of older men and a group of younger adults that were doing this back and forth process. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen at the Dam Square in my life and come on I live in Amsterdam and am by the Dam square almost every day!

So Manon decided if she ran into the guy that spoke to her she would ask him what he was doing. BAM! We found him. She asked him. Hehehehehehe.

Basically it was a day course he was doing to be social because he’s very shy in… well, being social!

Luckily in the Dam Square you find the coolest and most willing people to talk to so he was set, he must have been there all afternoon!

We missed the rest of the show because we went to go sit outside and enjoy the sun at the best milkshake place in Amsterdam that is interestingly enough a coffee shop (no the milkshake doesn’t have drugs in it) AMNESIA! You go Amnesia!

Here are a few clicks, I didn’t get to take pictures of the guys around Dam Square because I was too busy observing with my own two eyes! 

Taking a nap?

Protect your knight for the night!

New performers around the Dam!

Another new performer.

Manon Planting - The Rockstar

I have this awesome inspiring friend. 

Manon Planting.

When she picks up a guitar, closes her eyes and opens her mouth, the world stops.

Everything is pure when you hear her voice. 

You have to see her sing and play LIVE to feel the intensity. 

You know the feeling you have when something happens to you, or you feel or see something and think that you love the world, that in those few minutes you think the world is a perfect place? Thats what happens when you SEE Manon Planting play guitar and sing.

Because you are not as blessed as I am to be around to see and hear her sing and play guitar, here are her two YouTube videos, and some snaps I took of her when she was here at the house recording.