February 14, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
What you see in the picture above is melting ice on Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Yes, the winter has left, the snow is gone, the ice on the canals is melting very quickly now. Suddenly the magical atmosphere in Amsterdam has vanished again, and we'll have to wait quite a while before we can walk on the canals again. That's fine by me, to be honest. Wonderful as it was last weekend, I must say I'm in the mood for spring and summer. I want to be able to open my windows in the living room again!
There was some interesting news on the situation with the house today. After months of having gone entirely incommunicado, the seller of the apartments in our buildings is suddenly speaking again, and he is offering some money as compensation for the many flaws that we are still encountering in the building. Initially I was tempted to accept his proposal, because that way at least some of my dearly beloved (and currently missing) savings would come back... but after a talk with my upstairs neighbours today, it became apparent that this proposal was just not enough. A clear matter of 'too little, too late' and so we pursue our quest of closing down the coffeeshop on the ground floor and forcing the seller to come up with compensation for the all the problems that we still have in the house. To be continued, alas. Oh... and Valentine's Day? Yeah, screw that.
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