{"id":16343,"date":"2022-10-30T22:15:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16343"},"modified":"2022-11-06T22:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:51:18","slug":"daily_2825_-_amsterdam_day_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/10\/30\/daily_2825_-_amsterdam_day_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2825 &#8211; Amsterdam, day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe started both yesterday and today with luxurious breakfasts at a caf\u00e9 that Ingrid had found online. Pluk on Berenstraat, in case you find yourself in that area. The online reviews are very mixed but we got very good food, though the service was rather slow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWe had seen enough canals and crooked houses and cute little streets yesterday and wanted something different today, so we went to the Rijksmuseum.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_8.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe museum was very visitor-friendly, with easy-to-read maps that guided people to the most popular paintings, but also to other parts of the collection. The popular works &#8211; like their one and only Van Gogh &#8211; had large crowds in front of them, so I didn&#8217;t even bother to try and look at those. There were plenty of other interesting things to see.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nEven though we all walked in the same rooms, we often split up because of our diverging interests. Ingrid is interested in art and paints herself, so she looks at details and technical aspects that Adrian doesn&#8217;t care much about. So she and Eric (who also painted when he was young) looked at the paintings with artists&#8217; eyes, while Adrian and I looked at them with general curiosity.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWe noted, for example, the prevalence of grapes, glass bowls, and curls of lemon peel in 17th century still life paintings.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe curators at the Rijksmuseum had done a great job with the signage. All too often, museums label each work with its title, maker and year, and nothing more. Here there were often interesting background facts, and info sheets with even more facts and stories.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWhen we tired of paintings, we looked at cannons, porcelain, Delft pottery and ship models.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_9.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nI liked this glass vase by \u00c9mile Gall\u00e9, with its irregular patterns borrowed from various cultures.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nAnd this repeatedly darned sock, found in a seaman&#8217;s chest after a shipwreck.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_12.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nFrom high culture to low. In the afternoon we took the boat to North Amsterdam to a large flea market that Ingrid wanted to browse for vintage clothing. She didn&#8217;t find anything that fit, but I bought a jacket.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_10.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2825_Amsterdam_11.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started both yesterday and today with luxurious breakfasts at a caf\u00e9 that Ingrid had found online. Pluk on Berenstraat, in case you find yourself in that area. The online reviews are very mixed but we got very good food, though the service was rather slow. We had seen enough canals and crooked houses and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,6,18,775,15,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16343"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16359,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}