Above, the Pontsteiger building (which is a hotel, btw) as seen from one of our canals – now that I can no longer look out my window to see it, I figured I’d show it from other perspectives. Below, a few photos showing the ongoing work to stabilize and strengthen some of the older canals in the heart of the city.
A workshop recently got me back into this newly-renovated, 1638-founded Amsterdam institution, of whose newly-remodeled greenhouses I recently shared one photo in another series. 10 (imaginary) bonus points to anyone who can guess which beloved institution in the immediate neighborhood of our office we’re showing you here. Hint: it’s one of the world’s oldest of such institutions, yet somehow never makes the cut for most of my visitors, when weighed against other even more famous Amsterdam institutions…
This particular plant truly lights up if I time my morning bike commute via Vondelpark so as to catch the moment when the rising sun first hits it, as I did on of the two days of shots you’re seeing here.
During my lovely bike holiday in Gelderland last year, I showed you many parts of this photo from ground level. I took this photo during a December flight from Amsterdam to Doha (en route to Bangladesh, for the trip from which you’re still seeing Longest Beach photos, fyi), when I noticed the clouds had cleared enough to show me: from the left to center, the first branches of the Rhine after it enters NL (further explanations in last year’s post), and at the bottom some of the hilly landscapes of the Veluwe Zoom national park, of which we showed many posts including this one, last year. In the gallery below is a zoomed-in view that shows a bit more detail of the hilly park landscapes. Rest of the photos are all from the NL and DE parts of that flight.
I believe this little lake was once a quarry. As seen during a morning bike ride in the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. We’ve shown you another view of this lake once before.
(so much world, so little time....) 