Our time in Amsterdam has gone by in a split second. Tomorrow is
the day we’re leaving again and we haven’t done everything and seen everyone we
would have liked but really feel we are heading home again and that is a good
feeling. Because the eldest is sleeping over at grandmas and grandpas we are
more mobile than usual and there is one thing left I liked to do: visit
the Amsterdam Lights Festival. You can do it by boat and there’s a walking
route with both different light sculptures, we chose to go by foot but next
year I’ll definitely want to do both.
The festival is wonderful –although I wouldn’t recommend
going on a Saturday, we skipped the Hortus Botanicus for the long line – but
what made it really special for us was that it felt like a proper goodbye to
our home city. Walking through the center with all the Christmas lighting still
there, the nine streets district, along the canals, Artis, het
Scheepvaartmuseum and visiting the courtyard of the Grant Hotel where a couple
of older family members of M were married when it still was the town hall.
We will miss you Amsterdam, but be back soon and one day
indefinitely.
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