“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” -Anthony Bourdain.
I think the blue colour of my hair has faded just a little bit since dyeing it last week. But now it definitely matches the reading glasses I bought at the Van Gogh museum last month (based on the Amandelbloesem painting). And it also matches the blue grid lines of the De Staat T-shirt I bought on Thursday evening.
Came to the end of the day and found that I hadn’t taken any photos at all. Some of these Pictober posts have been made late, but at least they all used photos taken on the relevant day. Scrambling around for inspiration in a dark room at 23:00 with only an iPad…leads to experimenting with angles and framing.
I guess you’re old when instead of buying a souvenir print or T-shirt, you buy souvenir reading glasses.
It’s Fiona’s last day here. She flies back to Scotland tomorrow. This morning Abi, Fiona, and I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and in the afternoon we did the “Top Secret” escape room at Game Over. The escape room was hard but good. Nice theme, well decorated. I felt that a couple of the puzzles could have been better signposted, but the staff did warn us that it was going to be difficult!
The Van Gogh Museum was amazing. Earlier this year we would like to have visited it with Kenny and Judy when they were in town, but tickets were all sold out. A few years ago I almost got to visit it, but a tourist collapsed and hit his head just in front of us in the queue, and I ended up accompanying him to hospital because he was probably concussed and didn’t speak any Dutch. So after living here for over 15 years now, this was my first time there.
Not only are the works on display a fantastic collection, but the story the museum tells about his life is brilliantly executed. Definitely recommended.
On one of the floors, a staff member was handing out paper for visitors to use if they wanted to do some drawing themselves. On the third floor there was a small exhibit of a rabbit and a painting of a rabbit. Fiona took a rest nearby and did a quick but to my eyes amazing 10-minute sketch of the rabbit. Vivid and lifelike. She doesn’t often show us her work, and so I’m always surprised and blown away by her skill.
