This beautiful performance space has some of the best acoustics. The building housing this space sits on a corner in Amsterdam, ‘down-the-street’ from the Rijksmuseum. This is what I saw and heard. Have a listen
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Keep Well!
Heard it from the mother of a doctor, read it in print. The Netherlands has a higher number of deaths during the C-virus due to making the decision to let people die. If one is sick and there is no statistical chance of getting better, rather than go through all the machinations of trying to …
Astounding!
Nothing short of… This rental year purchased an electric kettle from England [came with an alternative wall plug, didn’t think of that at the time]. The motivation: electric is more energy efficient to heat water than a kettle/or pan on the gas-fired-stove. Have been delighted with the all glass kettle, except for the layer of …
Love in the time…
One of the activities I can do in this time of forced-non-social-contact is bike. That is perfect for me. Aimlessly biking is not my speed, a destination is a motivation. The best motivation is to the farmer that wholesales tulips. Should i die doing this pandemic I can just be laid out on the couch….my …
What is it with the TP?
Giving the Dutch undo credit, I thought, they won’t horde. They won’t do this crazy run on toilet paper. Wrong. Early on, not because it was needed but to check my hypothesis, I rolled by the paper product shelves in my local grocery store. All Gone. No toilet paper, but there were other products. Dumbfounded. …
These two are ripe for the roller brigade!
Well, well, well
Will wonders never cease. If you encounter me having to spend cash, constantly, you would have heard me bemoan the fact. I prefer to pay with a credit card. There are incentives to pay with a card, most notably travel points. If one keeps current monthly it is like cash. Every where in smaller cities …
Love in the time….
The Dutch Government is worried, they need to be. The populous travels a lot and hordes pass through Schiphol airport. The government mandate: Social Distancing was sent to every mobile phone holder. To aid in this, the grocery stores decided to have an hour for the ‘old folks’ to do their shopping. This hour is …
200,000 Free Tulips
The Quest began when a friend handed me a newspaper clipping and said “This is something for you!” The clipping told the story that for the past five years, on a specific Saturday, if you showed up on the Dam in Amsterdam you could take home some tulips. A kick-off for Spring by the Tulip …
Boat People
Not the work of FH but another painter from the time period.