Italy with Mama Jonda and Nate

~Surrounded by beautiful grapes~ 

Organic farm and Winery. They treated us wonderfully, serving us a vegetarian, organic meal, paired with biodynamic wine.                             

Bulk wine, what more could you want?

Cruising the medieval streets of La Morra, Italy

The balcony at our BnB

~Tasting wine~

Touring the wineries:

processing, cellar, labeling, bottling

The Biodynamic BnB/Winery where we stayed

Gelato!

Mom in the world's largest wine bank 

SlowFood University, Italy

After all that red wine it was time
for a cold beer at
an Italian Microbrewery.

Plane Ride back to Amsterdam

End of the Summer: Evening Canal Ride

~El Capitan~

MONSTERBALL-beach frisbee tournament

My favorite beer store

 A whole cellar of Sour and Gueuze Beers.

I have some work cut out to taste them all!

 And so many other good beers too!

Now that's a good looking bike basket. A whole case of delicious beers!

Fun beers, bikes on chairs, pin ball

Beer in a coconut made out of quinoa!

 Belgium beer in an interesting glass

 2 chairs on each bike. You have to carry furniture somehow 

in a city where you only have bikes as transport.

I love it!

There is always time for a good game of pinball

Fringe Festival

 We have been volunteering to help set up the Fringe Festival.  

Performances that don't make the big time, and well, are on the "Fringe".

To thank us for volunteering we were given passes to see any show we want for free.

We have seen some really rad acts so far.

Check it out....

http://www.amsterdamfringefestival.nl/

Nate biked and I rode around amsterdam delivering fliers and other materials

to the venues. SO much FUN to ride in bike carts!

We had to preform a little hard labor :)

Pluk de Nacht

A free outdoor movie festival

They played feature films that have not, until now, been brought over to Holland.

You could rent beach chairs, sit on a picnic bench or in bleachers. They

served pizza, crepes, beer and wine. The movie was projected onto a screen 

hung on old shipping crates.

Nate and Tom enjoying out picnic dinner we brought along to the movie.

Parade ~ traveling theater festival

You pay to use the toilet and all the money raised is used for clean water 

projects in some of the poorest parts of the world.

 Nate's favorite fountain bar

Quite the clean-up crew.

The little girl would hold the stack of cups while her brother collected more 

cups to add to the stack.

Now thats talent!