North Holland & Amsterdam

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Buiksloterbreek Park, in a part of Noord Amsterdam that I hadn’t previously visited. (In case you’d like an orientation linked to past posts: north of the Ij, to the right and in this case further west i.e. farther away from where these photos from Muziekgebouw and Bimhuis were taken.)

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Sometimes an urban canal may look like a country canal – but as with our last entry in this series, note the high-rises in the background…and I think we we’re in the city limits of A’dam at this point on the bike path :-).

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An early Saturday at the skate park in the North-Holland village of Uitgeest, where to my delight, the two youths using the bumps and jumps of the park were girls, not the usual gangs of teenage boys one’s come to expect :-).

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Though this may look idyllically countryside-esque, I think we’re within the city limits of Amsterdam on the bike path along the Amstel; note the high-rise office buildings of (I believe) Bijlmer in the background behind the more-picturesque windmill.

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Two cities in two different months: Amsterdam in April above & February below right. Leiden’s old university observatory below left, also in February.

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Last use of the photos from this year’s lovely display of bluebells at my lovely local canal-side park. ‘Til next season, dear flowers.