Saturday, January 22, 2011

From Atlantis To Yo-Yo's


On the 4th night Dave & Kate felt the time was right to revisit an old friend, Kaya.  It was pouring down and as they walked the streets in the area not too far from their apartment they spotted a coffeeshop called Atlantis.  It seemed apt that they try and find Kaya in there.  They did and left, heading back to the apartment for a pleasant night.




Amsterdam with all its canals was also continuing this strange water-related theme that seemed to be significant.  Pretty soon they discovered their luxury bathroom with its two sinks only had one in working order - the other was leaking water at the base.  Chris and his Dutch friend Ron arrived but couldn't fix it so one sink it was.



As Dave & Kate walked into Atlantis the girl at the counter misheard Dave and thought he was asking for "Jamaican", a strain of their friend Kaya.  Bob was certainly around.  The next day in a headshop for papers and any old lighter, the middle-aged lady specifically pulled one with Bob Marley on it from the shelf for them.  They would find him looking down on them from above in La Terturia, the only coffeeshop they sat in at other than Yo-Yo's.



They had heard Yo-Yo's produce was organically grown and since it was out of the city centre, was much more relaxed, for the locals rather than tourists.  It sounded like their kind of place.  La Terturia was more well-known, but still relaxed, run by two elderly women, a mother and daughter team.