Some time ago, I was cycling back home in Amsterdam, and I decided to take a slight detour to pass somewhere else for a change. As I approached the tunnel below the railroad, I saw a lot of unusual activity there. It turns out that the people from the nearby squat Op de Valreep had organized a day to decorate the tunnel mentioned above.
After painting the wall in a light-blue, neutral color, each street-artist got a section of it and began his work. Colors, beer and orange juice the most important tools.
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Hi all, long time no see! I left you at the beginning of my bike tour from Amsterdam to Paris, almost three monts ago already! No worries, I have safely come back home since then, only the blogging seems to have suffered from it. I’ll maybe go over it in another post. Here I just want to share a tiny selection of my two-wheeled adventure through the unforgiving spring of 2012!
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Winter is gone–long life to the winter! Spring is here and we’re all happy about it, and maybe this makes an excellent moment to think back for one second to the historical past winter. Just like I did with the mist, this time around I’ll look at all the ice we had.
Temperature reached a rare low. Amsterdam enjoyed the coldest night of the last 75 years (-22 Celsius!) and all the exposed water froze into thick skating ways. Despite the cold, it felt so special that everyone skated, walked or some even cycled on the canals. It was really epic.
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I know it’s hard to believe, but all the buildings in the picture stand on an artificial island. The rightmost one is Amsterdam’s conservatory, next to it the public library. The others are still under construction, except the leftmost one which is a hotel with a poshy roof bar. The sort of red Christmas tree on the left is actually a floating Chinese restaurant where a few friends got food poisoned once.
