Episodic Notes (or why we laugh)

A few adventures have as yet been unreported, time to correct this grievous injustice.

Liverpool and the Beatles

Reverently we left the millenium behind and searched for our "Beatles Experience" Found it...off a main artery into an alley we were confronted by a wall of brick with every ROCK 'N ROLL/Blues performer or band that you want to remember. Cavern Club on the right, Cavern Pub on the left. Pictures with our favorites who are hanging on the walls, using the loo, getting a pint. Worth the time (high praise from one who has none to waste)

Guy with John Lennon

This one is for you Peg and Amy

Lovely Loos/Bizarre Bathrooms

I've traveled, camped, visited gas stations, but it did not prepare me for the wide range of ways to relieve ones'self! Years of working and riding Harleys didn't prepare me for the ingenuity of waste management. First Day Dublin: I visit the ladies loo and tell Guy how absolutely beautiful it is, filled with old tiles, hand cut...older than the U.S....Guy decides to visit the Men's, momentary confusion turns to realization that the "entire wall" is the urinal. WOW! Next day, Liverpool, the Men's Loo at the Philharmonic", looks like a gentleman's club, now open to the public, has a loo on the UK National Registry! The barkeep will clear the bathroom for women patrons to view...it is very nice, great tile work, my favorite colors....
Compared too Sean in Amsterdam... outside our houseboat
Jump to Friday in Amsterdam. I walk into the Ladies loo and it is quite sparse, containing only a sink, paper towels, hand dryer and HUGE drain in the middle of the floor. NO WAY, I say to myself, rejoin the boys,,,"there must be another door" I am laughing my self silly, but "women up" and re-enter. There is another door, so awkwardly placed that the next gal in and I had a "personal moment"...finally washing my hands I reach for the hand dryer..doesn't work, hit the button on the wall, turn off the lights, my new friend screams in alarm", I walk slowly from the bathroom, afraid too look back..

Paula as Guide

Walking back from leaving the boys to Heineken..3 women 2 teenagers speaking English, I query "can I help you finds something?", One responds, "Your English is great, where are you from?" I start laughing.. "The States, WI" I reply, 'girl we're from Arkansas, Michigan and Berlin","Neighbors", we jinx each other and share the laugh, we all need, they are looking for the old Jewish neighborhood., per capita,Holland lost more than any other country. Gave them directions to a few places and had a blast! Told Sean and Guy, they may stop by for more
directions...invite them in.

Coffee anyone?