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Mr Coco's English Pub: Lousy food & warm beer. You've got to love a description like that! From a work conference in Amsterdam, 1993 or 1994.

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I like to think that, even if they can't spell "forty" in English, it's a knowing...

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*Some* of the houses in the Jewish quarter have been restored...

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A stealthy candelabra

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The Jewish quarter's town square is now a tourist area of bars and restaurants

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Though the Jews are almost all gone, life goes on

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Traces of Jewish life from 60 years ago

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There are some modern Jewish people moving back into the area, but the old community is no more

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Which, as ani fule kno, means it's the town high school. Well, #3 of them

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The streets near my hostel were a bit more what I expected of former Communist East Europe

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The bones of the city show through in places. And they're mostly Catholic.

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Even a tobacco stand is decorative

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Even working buildings have lovely crinkly edges

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A rare bit of modern architecture in the Old Town. The louvres shift with the time of day.

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Uploaded on Mar 13, 2009

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Outside the old town area, the buildings get rather more modern and grimy. I loved the weathering on the sign on the wall here.

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After a spell when it was Big Brother

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Flags outside the town hall

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Multiple cloned Jesuses (Jesi?) are kept safely behind a barrier, for public protection.

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Uploaded on Mar 13, 2009

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