Travel Itinerary - SAE

They say that after the first day in Amsterdam all plans go out the window. Hopefully I will make it to the next destination on my list. SAE. No, not a fraternity. The SAE Institute is a world class audio/video school located in Amsterdam. I plan on taking a tour of the facilities and perhaps pick up on a one-day workshop, depending on my schedule.

www.sae.nl

As you may know, Recording music is just as interesting to me as performing and writing it. Unfortunately I will be in and out of Amsterdam a week before a huge gigantic worldwide AES meeting. AES stands for Audio Engineering Society, a professional organization for audio engineers- of which Chicago has a chapter, as well as every major city I'm sure.

What SAE stands for Im still not certain. School of Audio Engineering? Well I am sure that it will be cool none-the-less.

Now to further cover my musical interests, I have found a bar near Boom Chicago that has an open mic night a few nights during the week. This bar is called The Last Watering Hole, or known as the Waterhole Leidseplein.

http://www.waterhole.nl/

http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/cgibin/reviewbrowse.cgi?01352

I already found a few guitar stores so Im looking forward to it. Incidentally The Leidseplein is a square in the southern region of Amsterdam known for its nightlife-- as in bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. I will get some pictures going here in a lil bit. It appears that many of the bars here are set up similar to Melvin B's in Chicago, where the patio seating spills out into the square. Hey for all you Hawkeyes out there, I think that the "square" might be similar to the Ped Mall, but hey who am I to say. Then again Sedgewick's is like Mickey's, right? oopse


a square