March 31, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The mystery with the house just gets bigger. At very high speed the remaining scaffolding on the canal side of the building was dismantled today, as if the metal was urgently needed for the war effort or something like that, and the entire scaffolding was put up again on the street side of the building. That would of course be no problem if the canal side now looked glorious… but alas, as described in yesterday’s post, it’s really only the top two floors that look splendid. The ground floor has not been done at all, the first and second floors only very patchy. When I asked my upstairs neighbours if they knew what was going on, I got very evasive answers back via email. That doesn’t increase my trust in them, unfortunately, because up until recently I had assumed we were all in this together. I’m fairly sure that was not actually the case. A nasty situation to be in. The picture shows the scaffolding on the street side of the house in the evening, as seen from my living room.
Not so nasty, and actually very pleasant, was a rendez-vous I had with Sarah this afternoon. She’s still happily unemployed, slowly starting to look at her options for future employment, and it was great to see her again, to catch up with events in both our lives. We went to FOAM first to have a look at their current, big exposition on pictures from the New York Times Magazine, and afterwards went to Café Krom on Utrechtsestraat (after a quick detour via the new, big Starbucks on Rembrandtplein) where a couple of wines and happy chatting were the ingredients for a very pleasant afternoon with her!
