TRAVELING NINJAS

After sleeping in this morning, and recuperating form last night’s marathon of Bikram Yoga, Dre and I took a short walk around Weesp, a small town outside of Amsterdam that is (according to wikipedia) “famous for Van Houten chocolate, windmills, the historical centre with its canals, its Weesper porcelain and the Weesper Mop cookie. The bastion and fortifications are also famous, because they are a part of the Defense line of Amsterdam and the Dutch Water Line. They were never used, though.”

It is a small, historic and friendly town to say the least. In a word, it’s quaint. We visited a few shops and picked out a few thank you gifts before discovering a wonderful cheese shop situated with both windows facing canals.

I believe the shop is a chain, but from the inside you would never know.  The cheese selection is larger than anything I’d seen before and the aroma was indescribable. After parusing the selection and some deliberation Andrea decided on a strong munster cheese and I selected some bite sized meats from the deli counter.

Neither of us are good with temptation so it didn’t take long before we broke down and decided to have lunch.  We found a cozy bench next to a quiet pond and cracked open our goodies. The cheese was stronger than we anticipated but still very tasty. The bites of chorizo and salami were just the snack to compliment the munster and sunny afternoon. The only thing we were missing was a bottle of wine. … Maybe tomorrow.