Journey: Amsterdam
Another up and organised morning, and much cooler today and thus nicer for the pups. After their walk, fueled by coffee we strolled to the Van Gogh museum – I adore his work and found it such a calming place to be. The true colours of his paintings are also much brighter than I ever realised.
From there to the Moto museum, which although a complete contrast to VG was equally brilliant with lots of banksy, kusama, koons and warhol. Mark and I also posed on a giant rocking horse – watching Mark climb up was hilarious…it didn’t cross his mind to use the stirrups 😂
After a brief walk through Volderpark to see Volderbunk (a community music venue), we came home via the floating flower market, walked the pups and I duly fell asleep for over an hour…one late night and I’m buggered lol.
Mark had been unsure about going to Bodyworks but it was fascinating, I read every post in there and seeing the body in such detail was breathtaking. It was also very positive, as they are studying happiness and it confirmed that only 10% is down to circumstances…the rest is genetic or how we choose to frame our mind. Playing on the indoor swing and watching a laughing yoga class certainly put a smile on our faces.
Then the bit I’d half been dreading…the free body assessment. Turns out Mark has lost half a stone and I’m the same weight as when we left – despite walking 86miles last week my rediculous overconsumption of all things yummy has fortunately been balanced out 😂 Will be interesting to see where we are at in a years time 🙈
While Markles went to the supermarket I walked the pups, found a new park, some funky decorated bikes, and cooked dinner which had enough garlic in it to kill any vampires in Europe (I love garlic!).
I’ve been pestering since I first saw it from the water taxi that we should go on Europe’s highest swing…Mark wasn’t having any of it, so off I went on my tod. While I confess it’s blatantly an overpriced money spinner, the rooftop bar and views were lovely and it was a fun if very short ride on the swing. I’m glad I did it and huge thanks to the stranger who took cash in exchange for paying for me when I realised they only accept card payment and my new card is still in the UK.
Far from my original thought that I wasn’t too sure about Amsterdam, we are staying another night and have more planned for tomorrow ☺️. No doubt we will be woken extra early as Ernest has just realised he is big enough to jump on the bed 🙈
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