Brandmeester Coffee and Orangerie Elswout

Yesterday morning we met Gary and Louise for coffee at Brandmeester in Haarlem at around 1100hrs:

I had a nice Americano coffee and then later a cup of fresh mint tea. Afterwards we walked around town together a bit. We stopped by the shop where Andrew and I had purchased a couple of beautiful paintings of Haarlem and picked them up from the shopkeeper. I bought a few pot pies (lamb, steak and lentil bean) from a merchant in the Grote Markt. Gary and Louise were shopping for a baking pan, so we went to a couple of shops with them. While we were in the Grote Markt we saw this one-man-band, his name is Jeff Silvertrust...pretty talented guy!

We parted ways around 1400hrs....Andrew and I went home and ate our yummy pot pies!  We are downloading episodes of a series called "Once Upon a Time" and another called "Downton Abbey" that we're getting on ITunes...so we watched one of each!

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Around 1230hrs today Bruce and Linda came by and we rode our bikes to the Orangerie Elswout for lunch. What a beautiful place! 

After lunch we took a walk. It was such a beautiful day....sunny and about 45 degrees!
This is an old icehouse:

 This little "house" from afar......

 Is just a facade!

What a wonderful day! We are truly blessed with good friends.