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Nov 2, 2009 0

Click here... Beauty and the bike

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Nice bike. Gorgeous woman. Summer in Amsterdam…

Feb 16, 2009 0

Click here... “Don’t Park Bicycles Here”

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This is soooo Dutch, or at least typical for Amsterdam: a bike (shopping basket filled with plastic tulips) parked right in front of a sign that says not to park bikes there.

Then again… given the color-coordination going on here I wonder whether the bike was placed there by the folks who run the store. After all, all is fair in love and advertising, right?

Episode is a second-hand clothes store — this one in the Berenstraat in Amsterdam.

Buyer Beware

Episode’s website says the Episode stores are run by GAIA. GAIA in turn is connected to Tvind — a company warned against by cult watchers such as Tvind Alert:

HAVE YOU JUST DROPPED CLOTHES INTO A ‘HUMANA’ CHARITY BIN?

Or one operated by Planet Aid, Gaia, UFF, DAPP, Green World Recycling (or any of the enterprises listed below?)

You assumed you were giving to a good cause? You may be surprised to find out where your donation has really gone. It could be supporting a cult!

Your clothes are now the property of The Teachers Group. This is not a normal charity. It is not recognised as one anywhere in the world. One of its most senior leaders has just been sent to prison for fraud (January 2009).
- Source: The Used Clothes Scam, Tvind Alert

See also The Green Bins of GAIA and more about Tvind.

Cool bike, though.

Feb 12, 2009 0

Click here... Bike Theft Insurance

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In Amsterdam bike theft is rampant. Locking your bike tends to help as it slows down the thief. If your bike carries more locks, or stronger-looking ones, than another one close by other gets taken instead.
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Feb 6, 2009 1

Click here... Bikes will be removed

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Sign on the fence at the Chinese Buddhist temple on Zeedijk, in Amsterdam’s Chinese district:

“Bikes will be removed.” We assume the message is the same in Chinese.

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