It's been very windy and rainy here in Amsterdam. Phill got his work (conference paper) done in time to see Ziggy Marley play at the famous Melkweg. (In Dutch, "Melkweg" means "Milky Way", as in our Galaxy). We posted some photos from the Melkweg, but they're not very good because all we had with us was a cell phone camera.

We're now in Amsterdam, and will be staying here for a few days. We're staying in a nice room connected to someone's house (a "pension"), and we have bikes to get around. Although biking in the busy parts of this city is MAD! Busses, trains, cars, motorcycles, and millions of bikes ... going every direction! Our first event here was the opening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2" last night at midnight in an old theater. We a...

We spent the last couple days traveling through Belgium and the Netherlands. We stopped in Utrect (Netherlands) to catch a futbol game, but since it was a pre-season friendly game, they were actually playing it at their new training camp which is over an hour (by car) from the stadium. So instead we went to Weesp and rented some bikes. We biked from Weesp to the small medieval town of Muiden and visited the castle. The following URL should take you to a "...