Posts tagged “Vondelpark

Urban Entrances.183

Yesterday evening, biking home from the office via Vondelpark. Even on hot days, there are reasons to stop and enjoy the views 🙂


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Bridges.47


Urban Garden.247

Setting sun as I biked home, and a new playground about to open, both in Vondelpark a earlier this month.

Small Wonders.287


Urban Garden.246

First inhabited stork-nesting platform I’d seen this season, biking home through Vondelpark a few weeks ago – above. Below, same platform seen from the other side, last weekend. And further down, since it’s spring flower season here, more from last weekend’s walk in Vondelpark for your viewing pleasure :-).

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Yep, there’s a wee island tucked in there :-).

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Skylights.17


City Lights.92

Concertgebouw’s “Mahler Pavilion” in Vondelpark (live streaming for anyone wanting to enjoy the music but hadn’t gotten tickets), past which I biked after the bittersweet enjoyment of the very last concert in this year’s Mahler Festival with Sam.

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Please remind me of the glory of Amsterdam summer evenings with good weather, once I start complaining about the winter gray darkness again.

Urban Garden.183

Runners passing what I think of as the “front entrance” to Vondelpark on marathon Sunday this year. (Front b/c it’s closer to the city center than the entrance near my old place, at the opposite end of the park near my old place.)

Urban Garden.179

My farewell ode to Vondelpark (A’dam’s most famous and tourist-beloved park) and its open air theater, since I moved away from its immediate vicinity more than two months (!!) ago already, and am now taking my sunny-moment or end-of-work-from-home-day strolls in the lakeside Sloterpark further north and west.


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This one is a bit more obviously a little island; I’d just never noticed it before. These must be heaven for the birds and small mammals of our urban park, since no one boats and I’ve never seen people swim in these canals, and dogs only going in to retrieve sticks…


Small Wonders.183