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Advantages: Relaxed, Cheap, Friendly, Cheerful, lager in the vending machine! Disadvantages: none!
The Hortus has become a second home to me in Amsterdam. I think I must have stayed there 5 times in 4 years, if not 6.
Everytime I stay, I meet other people who go back again and again as well. It's truly testament that all the friends I have taken along over the years have been back or plan to return at some stage. And there's a real mix of people staying, although obviously most of the people I've mixed with there have been students or backpackers - everyone is friendly and chilled out (the staff are - in my experience - tolerant of guests relaxing and smoking the green stuff in the hotel and there's a massive pull down screen for big sports games or movies in the lounge along with smaller sets and sky with so much on you can sit and watch tv all night long!). If you're a big football fan spend some time checking out the team strips ...
Advantages: Great guitars, honest and powerful lyrics Disadvantages: Depends whether you like the genre
Martyn Joseph - Martyn Joseph
Just before Christmas, we went to see Martyn Joseph at Haren Church, near Brussels airport. I don't not what surprised me more, that a Welsh singer-songwriter should turn up at a small venue in cold, dark Flanders or that this was the fifth successive year he had been there. We had seen him once before, back at Spring Harvest in Minehead in 1996, and had a couple of his albums. One of these, the eponymously entitled Martyn Joseph is the subject of this review.
= MARTYN JOSEPH - WHO IS HE? =
Martyn Joseph was born in Penarth in 1960, and came to prominence in the 1980s, primarily among Christian circles. As he said in his self-deprecating manner at the concert, he was originally classified as a rock and pop artist, then this changed to folk, and most recently, a new category has been found ...
