Wow have I had a lot of work to do. I've had several pilot studies and presentations to worry about. Fortunately, things have JUST calmed down again for a little bit so I finally have an opportunity to post about my trip to Amsterdam. Next week, I will be taking a trip to Italy, staying in Florence and making day trips to Rome and Venice.
Unfortunately everyone I was going to go to the Hague with had something come up, so I ended up doing the solo journey to Amsterdam I had originally planned. Fortunately, I picked the perfect day! There wasn't a cloud in the sky! And it wasn't quite as cold as usual...
Once again, you will be viewing my journey through pictures. Enjoy!
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| This is how misty it was that morning. I have done nothing to this picture to make it so gray. |
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| I can't figure out why this picture looks brighter, but you can see how even the top of the bell tower is obscured. |
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| Found this in the Red Light District (because everyone has to visit it once). Wasn't fond of the district itself, but the graffiti was cool :) |
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| I LOVE the architecture. There was also a bizarre little demonstration of some sort going on in the square with lots of people dressed up like death. |
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| More architecture! |
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| Pretty buildings... |
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| This sign did its job well. I would not have entered if I hadn't stopped to take a picture of such a beautifully painted sign. Ended up spending about a half hour looking at their stock of entirely spirituality-focused books. They had everything from Christian and Kabbalah to Daoist, Buddhist, and Shamanic. |
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| More beautiful buildings. |
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| Really lovely houses. I could live there. |
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| The beautiful canals! |
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| Senatus Populusque...Amsterdam? That's the only thing I could come up with. |
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| A wider shot of one of the canals. Somehow when people said the city was full of canals I pictured something more like Venice, with little bitty canals. Oh, no. These are CANALS. |
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| The Rijksmuseum! |
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| Some of the exterior of the museum. |
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| My absolute favorite thing in the Rijksmuseum. Von Aert Van Der Neer's "River View by Moonlight." This is the best image of it I could find on the internet and it still does not do it justice, but it is enough. (Credit must go to http://www.mypicasso.com/de/river-view-by-moonlight-12487.html) |
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| And finally, while walking back to the station, I had to pass the flower markets. I figured everyone knows what flowers and seeds look like so I decided to take a picture of the canal instead. |
