Roadside Pictures

[RobertArthur]

@ Polarengineer, I have no idea when you last visited Amsterdam. Just to clarify: that bicycle parking facility is in Amersfoort, close to where the first shipment of Volkswagen Beetles arrived in April 1947. Nowadays it is a sleek, modern residential area. The area in front of Amsterdam Central Station looks a lot tidier these days. An underground bicycle parking facility has been built, above which the canal boats pick up passengers as usual. Modern times, modern inconveniences: the escalators (or slides?) that descend endlessly into the depths malfunction frequently and have an extremely slippery top layer, resulting in many falls. Above at street level new trams run with a dashboard for the driver reminiscent of that of a jet fighter. Elsewhere in the city not too many changes.The railway equipment has also changed considerably.

[RobertArthur]

Electric power? No, a little bit of wind and sunshine is all you need to dry your laundry. More electric power needed elsewhere, in Las Vegas. Power outage, black-out?