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.
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.
Zwolle is the capital of Overijssel Province here in NL, and I spent a (rather rainy) day & night there a few weeks ago in order to experience quite a magical concert by the combined Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Nederlands Kammerkoor which featured Faure’s Requiem, a Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, Part’s wonderful De Pacem Domine amongst other gems. Herewith a few “signs”-relevant Zwolle views, the first I’ve shown since a few posts in the summer of 2022 (!), the only other time I got out of the train in Zwolle. Spoiler alert: I’ve now been inside the unique modern addition featured in that link: something else to watch for in upcoming posts :-).
Two last 2025 A’dam sunrises, in November (left) and June (right). And once the sun moves farther north again, you’ll be able to start seeing how far along that construction across the street has come.
(so much world, so little time....) 