it has been a long week touring germany and the netherlands. we visited so many cities and so many buildings that everything is starting to blur...
the entire trip felt like a walking pilgrimage across europe. in one week, i went to: hamburg, cologne, dusseldorf, neuss, arnhem, amsterdam, utrecht, rotterdam
this is what the danes call "the american way" of traveling, meaning that we try to do one city a day. it's just impossible to truly experience a city in one day, let alone a week. you need at least a month, just like the way danes do it with their six week vacations.
i like to think that this week was just a preview so that i can return for a longer duration. but i absolutely fell in love with utrecht... it was my favorite city in the netherlands. maybe because i got to see my favorite building that i've been dying to see for two years. and of course, being that i have the worst luck in the world, i finally get to go inside and my camera dies. wtf.
amsterdam ♥so the conclusion is that canals make a city beautiful. we need to get some of these...
being that we traveled from city to city by bus, i saw a couple of new movies. volver (which was just simply strange) and black book (or zwartboek in dutch). black book reminded me too much of inglourious basterds which makes me wonder if there was any cross pollination between the two. they were released only 3 years apart from each other. but nonetheless, both really good movies.
i also succumbed to my biggest consumerist weakness... books with pretty pictures. this one is a monograph of BIG architects' works entitled "an archicomic on architectural evolution." they are denmark's newest (and youngest) innovators in architecture... check them out at www.big.dkchange of itinerary! i will be going to rome instead of paris at the end of april / beginning of may. yay!!! pizza!!!
last night, i made dinner for the family. eggplant parmesan, which is beginning to become my specialty. tonight is alice in wonderland with the fam :)
hahah yeah I always see cars parked right up against the canals in all the pictures I see of amsterdam. I'd be pretty scared of accidentally having my car in drive instead of reverse and going straight into the water when trying to pull out. I wonder how often this happens haha
ReplyDeleteaww Sue! im so happy you had fun =)
ReplyDeleteny misses you like woah! xP hehe anywhooooo yea..i played taboo like 2 weeks ago..and it's not the same without you lol..ttysoon~~