The initial purpose of the trip to Amsterdam was to attend Sensation White. It’s a huge techno/house/minimal dance party where the 50,000 attendees (at least) are all dressed in white (with the exception of shoes). It was incredible to see so many people in white at one time – and we definitely knew which train is the right one because everyone in white was going that way. It seemed unlikely to meet up with anyone we knew… wait a sec… J… we saw a whole bunch of Canadians at the bottom of the train station stop upon our arrival and said hi and look lots of pictures before going in our separate doors as indicated on the tickets. It was really a dance party until 7am!
The next day we went to the Van Gogh museum which was phenomenal and it had a contemporary section where there was a Corbusier. We schmoozed around to Vondel Park and then the Heineken brewery – yum, now I can recognize the smell of hops near my work there is a brewery. I had a great dinner at Café Latei, which consisted of rice, shrimp skewers and a light salad – people are super nice there.
On Sunday, we went on a bike tour. It was an afternoon of relaxing on a one speed bike – although not recumbent, very comfortable, especially to lean back a bit. With the biking tour, we saw a windmill, cheese and clogs. People were rowing and boating (it’s the thing to do), there was a trumpet warming up with scales underneath an overpass, tunnels of trees everywhere, fluorescent colours alit in the park with wading pools consisting of small children and families. We completed the tour in Vondel park near the Picasso statues.
The rest of the afternoon we visited the Flower market where I purchased a cactus (hope I don’t kill it… out bloomed a flower).
I ate a herring sandwich by the Amstel and watching boats turning around before getting caught in the rain. We ducked under cover until it lightened up and then stocked up on sugary caramel wafer cookies. After arriving in the airport, we waited for our delayed airplane – played cards, read books. Then ran to catch the last train from Basel to Baden. What a psychedelic weekend.
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