Visitors to the Netherlands

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We have spent the week playing host to some visitors from Tokyo. Our little household went from Himself, I, and our three fur-kids; to seven humans and three fur-kids! It has been an amazing week in which we learnt lots of things about getting up early and resolving neighbour disputes. It was an interesting week!

Himself and I spent Sunday cleaning up the house and making it respectable and presentable to guests. Then off I went on the bus to Schiphol to meet everyone and bring them home. Say hello! They are pleased to meet you.

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Scenes from Amsterdam

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It has been a busy week of errands, which aren’t really all that photo worthy. Sorry about that. But! I did finally get the opportunity to take a picture of one of my favourite (surprising) Dutch windows!

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The Dutch love to display things in their windows. Almost anything will do. I’ve seen rocking horses, statues, vases, paintings, cats (both real, stuffed and pictures of) and plants. But this one I spotted long ago from a tram window I have been wanting to share with you ever since. It was finally a sunny enough day that I went past again and snapped this for you. Would you like to know more?

The Rijksmuseum

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The Rijksmuseum is open to the public again, and before we have a slew of guests come to visit I thought it might be nice to be able to speak authoritatively on how it looks after the refurbishment.

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It is absolutely stunning! An amazing and wonderful world class Museum! The entry hall is a huge open atrium like the Louvre, and crowd management was excellent! Would you like to know more?

De Oude Kerk

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Himself got a day off work. Deciding to make the most of it, we planned on heading to a local medieval castle! Of course when the day dawn cold and wet (first day of summer, and Solstice don’cha’know) we decided that we’d get terrible photos and I couldn’t do that to all of you lovely readers. So plans changed and we ended up at the Oude Kerk and the World Press Photo Exhibition therein.

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I’m not sure why is didn’t occur to me that the “World Press Photos” would be taken from “World Press”, and therefore mostly about War and Sports. But it didn’t, and they were. So as often as I was impressed with the technical aspects of the photos, and how much story they told, they were quite confronting and not often heart-warming stories.

Good thing for me I had other things to absorb myself into! Would you like to know more?