April 23, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Back to work for a full five day work week… and it didn’t start in the best of ways because it was raining in the morning. I hadn’t planned on going for a swim, which was good, because that meant I could take the metro at work. Especially in the mornings, if it’s busy in the metro, it sometimes happens that I first take a metro down to Central Station, one station further down the line in the wrong direction, and then just stay on the train waiting for it to return towards Amstelveen in the opposite direction – which usually is not more than a minute’s wait. That’s what I did this morning, and that meant that I had a seat on the train as it departed Central Station. Behind me, a woman was coughing quite a bit and without politely holding a hand before her mouth. I was hoping that I wouldn’t catch a cold from her as we travelled through the metro tunnel towards the Zuid area.
The picture is of the residential area just north of our office building. As you can see, these houses all have gardens – front and back. This is Zuid, a very affluent area of the city and these aren’t even the most expensive houses. Those would be the ones two streets down, on Minervalaan. In any case, I took this picture because especially in this block there were a lot of Japanese cherryblossom trees in various colours and they looked so pretty – even from high up. No other reason. I spent the evening at home and at around nine thought that I was getting a cold. Fingers crossed that that’s not the case, but it sure feels like it…
