Well we are winding down but also running around trying to see those important must sees we have missed. Art galleries, towns, canal rides and most importantly, final visits with our friends here.
Our final canal ride and some of the sites on this trip.
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| Playground on the canal |
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| What and why this is, I do not know! |
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| cottage on the canal |
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| boat yard |
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| abandoned lumberyard wind mill |
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| a really big boat for these canals |
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| went down our canal |
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| view of our apartment from our neighbour's boat |
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| blue house boat and our apartment building...will miss it! |
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| blue house boat interior |
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| Cynthia painting her boat |
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| this is in the city! |
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| 100 year old boat |
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| 5 year old boat built the old way |
Fall is the time for the new cultural season in Amsterdam. It is celebrated with dance and theatre festival and new shows at the galleries. So we hopped on our bikes and went to see a lot of small galleries, the royal palace which had a show of emerging artists and a church which was showing Andy Warhol's Last Supper in Pink.
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| Too cute! |
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| interior |
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| book matched mahogany doors in the trash...broke his heart |
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| portrait of me by Arnt |
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| the old art deco Tschinsky movie house..saw To Rome with Love and yes that is prosecco and popcorn!! |
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| lovely room in a small art gallery |
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| the royal palace was having a show of emerging artists |
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| royal palace rooms all had great ceilings, rugs and wall paper |
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| film at the photography museum |
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| great cow photo |
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| not sure how he did it photo! |
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| lovely colours in this photo |
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| this is all miniature sets and then photographed |
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| love laundry paintings |
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| amazing choir screen with Warhol's pink silkscreen in the back |
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| the circus is in the middle of Amsterdam for a while |
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| house boat in the fall |
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| went to a small art gallery to hear our friend Maartsj play violin |
Our dear friend Piet Hein took us to the most amazing Art Museum called Kroller Muller just outside Utrecht. Helene Kroller-Muller and her husband Anton Kroller had an incredible collection. She started by taking an art appreciation course with H.P. Bremmer and her first painting purchase was Train in a Landscape by Paul Gabriel. She then started collecting madly with Van Gogh as her personal favourite...paintings, sculpture and installations. She is now a personal hero of mine. When the economic crisis hit in the 1920/30's she donated her entire collection to the Dutch State as a precaution against it being divided up and sold. The agreement was they had to erect a building to house the art on the land she donated.
When you arrive at the entrance you are given the choice to drive or bike to the museum. We biked the 16 km through some beautiful landscape of dunes, grass fields and wonderful forests.
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| ride to the museum through grass fields |
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| then forest |
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| lots of different mushrooms |
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| trees in grass field |
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| lovely colours | |
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PAINTINGS!
SMALL SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATIONS
OUTDOOR SCULPTURE!
this section of the Sculpture Garden dealt with housing
There are huge and small sculptures everywhere
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| Piet Hein dressed for the Jean Dubuffet |
