Oh wait...

I guess she IS impressed.

I order you to stop crying!

Now!

(It didn't work.)

Another crew member?

Walking along in Amsterdam West the Dread Pirate spotted this daunting photograph in the window of Brandeis Decohome (http://www.brandeis.nl/) and was immediately smitten. That smile! That attitude! That hair! He knew he had to recruit her for his adventures. Now only to find her and meet her in person... One day, me hearties, one day!

That way!

Now that he has a crew, if not an actual boat, the Dread Pirate
considers himself entitled to captaincy. Captain Gavroche leads the way!

The pirate is BACK!

Not only that, he has found two (2!) crewmembers for his mayhem. Meet The Twins. Don't they make you *shudder* with fear?

On the way home

And so he decided to return to his temporary base camp in Amsterdam. Along the way he got rid of one of those things so strange to him: a book. His companion said this was a free book which to the Pirate's mind was very appropriate; to him books are worthless things anyway. You can't really loot and pillage them, can you? So he had no scruples at all setting this book free on Bookcrossing.

Garlick and peppers

There seems to be a lot of this sort of thing in the national diet. And pork. Loads of pork.

The Pirate looked around him carefully and sniffed some locals and eventually decided against an invasion. He said it was because he felt the Hungarians had suffered enough wars and occupation already. It could also be that a lifetime of pork was just not what he had in mind. I guess we'll never know.