Wednesday, August 8, 2012

amsterdam slokje


Amsterdam never fails to instil a sense of home, a very delightful sense in fact - and we always look forward to a return... sadly, the grand canal house above [the largest of them on the Amstel Canal] is no longer in the family and we are relegated to stay in a more modest one around the corner on the Prinsengracht [the most lovely Hotel Orlando , below]


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this gracious hallway in another canal house leads into FOAM - Fotografiemuseum - where we wandered around stately rooms full of contemporary and innovative dutch photo-art...


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ever exhilarated by progressive dutch creativity, we tumbled into the moooi wonderland of design delirium with gravity defying artwork to precariously perched furniture to glowing protonic doorknobs to ethereal floating light spheres...



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taste sensations are more traditional, ranging from the elegant street fish stands for a raw herring power snack any time of day to hourly marathon of dim sum in Chinatown to stacked to the attic purveyors of great wheels of cheese to precious patisseries presented like bejewelled baubles in spotlit glass cases...




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dropped dutch diction...

determined dutch-chinese...
[like our mooi kroost!]


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