Cruise Ship Seabourn Sojourn in Amsterdam
The cruise ship Seabourn Journey visits the Port of Amsterdam
Falling through the ice
This lady wanted to join her friend on the ice, but she should have done so by way of the boat. The ice at the very edge near the stairs just wasn’t strong enough. Oddly enough, after she got out she acted like she wasn’t even cold. She and her friend walked off at a …
Ice skaters on Prinsengracht, Amsterdam
Ice skaters enjoying the late afternoon sun on Prinsengracht. In the distance is the Westertoren — the most sung-about church tower in the Netherlands. In the diary of her life during the Second World War, Anne Frank wrote that she could hear the bells of the Westerkerk. The house where she and her family …
Amsterdam gable stone: Jesus and two disciples
This gable stone — depicting Jesus, after his resurrection, joining two confused disciples on the road to Emmaus — is found in a blind wall at the Begijnhof (Beguinage) — one of Amsterdam’s oldest courtyards.
Dutch Flowers of a different kind
Amsterdam coffeeshop Dutch Flowers, at the corner of Singel canal and Heisteeg.