Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Queen's Day Amsterdam 2014

Some pictures of our Queen's Day. Yesterday was Queen's Day - Koninginnedag in Dutch - in Amsterdam, wich means walking, eating, and buying things from people in the streets. Due to weather the city wasn't as crowded as last year, and it showed.

Because Queen's Day is a national event it's kind of custom that you wear something orange. The colour orange is the national colour of the Netherlands.


This picture was taken at the Weteringsschans, and yes we went into the crowd. Normally you would feel like walking in a pinball machine, but this year it was easy to get through.


Music at the Museumplein. The place to be a on Queen's Day. A lot of life music and fast food. In the background you see the Dutch national museum (or Rijksmuseum).


A place to eat.


A photo made by a lady


We liked the auto rickshaw, but when we looked at the photo later we saw someone say ..


Het Stedelijk Museum or the city museum. But it's closed, and it is being renovated and expanded.



I should say happy anniversary queen Beatrix, but April 30th (Queen's Day) was the birthday of her mother. Bea decided not to change it.


If you are a celebrity you probably liked the buffet at the Amstel Hotel.


Amsteldijk. In the white house on the corner I had my Transcendental Meditation course when I was 15. I took the course long time ago when people were financially nice to each other. For the record, the TM organisation has left this building long time ago. The house is on the other side of the Amstel Hotel.


Metro station Wibautstraat


Art in the metro.


Getting out at metro station Ganzenhoef in the Bijlmer. It's a neighbourhood in the district Amsterdam South East, the district where al lot of Surinamese, Antillean and Ghanaian people live. Gentrification, or Urban renewal as they call it here, is dramatically changing the neigboorhood and the communities.


Ground level Ganzenhoef.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Festival season

Ich bin zurück aus Amsterdam und ich sprudel geradezu vor Kreativität. Kennt ihr das? Ein neues Land, eine neue Stadt, neue Eindrücke? Unser Spontantrip in die holländische Hauptstadt wurde zwar von Regen und ganz unsommerlichen Temperaturen begleitet, aber trotzdem habe ich einen bleibenden Eindruck vom niederländischen Trubel gewonnen. Vielleicht auch eine Stadt zum Leben? (Die Bilder dazu bearbeite ich mal die Tage, jetzt erstmal ein paar vom letzten Festival ;)

Last saturday i spent at the German Festival, called "Heimathafen". It's very small and unknown, but that makes it even more lovely and great!
Letzten Samstag habe ich auf dem "Heimathafen"-Festival verbracht. Klein aber fein - trifft es ganz gut :) Aber dass es noch so unbekannt ist, macht es um so schöner.

Waiting for the next band and eating gummibears.

Their wall wasn't finished yet when we arrived...



We've been much to early, so we spent the time to make funny things with the bag Jana found in front of someones house :D (If you are german try to read the story :D we had to laugh so hard!)

As you can see :) we have been MUCH to early :)


So later we went to a new frozen Yoghurt Cafée. Yummie :)