The Whale

Apartment building, also referred to as The Sfinx. Designed by Frits van Dongen. Renowed for its asymetrical roof and metal cover.

Hope, Love and Fortune

 The building Hoop liefde en Fortuin (Hope love and Fortune) is designed by Rudy Uytenhaak. The black spots, near the windows is an artwork of Willem Oorebeek. You will find this building in the Oostelijk Havengebied, Amsterdam.

Should there be no place for passengers in the train?

If you look carefully you can see this train contains only of first parts of the trains, and so there is no place for any passengers on this one...

View from Windrooskade

Veemkade- where are the Cruise ships?

No cruiseships around the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, but a German Military one .....

Veemkade

Although it is the end of June, the wind is blowing you of your feet at the Veemkade, IJ-haven in Amsterdam. It looks like Autumn, it feels like autumn (20th of June)

Little bit of peace within the center

Walking into a little oasis within the center. A little well treated garden on Windroosplein. The statue in front of the entrance says:
Ter Herdenking van de medewerkers van de waarheid die gevallen zijn in de strijd tegen het facisme 1920-1945
(short translation: In memory of the employees of the Truth who fell in the battle against facism 1940-1945.

Kalverstraat (main shoppingstreet)

Beautiful houses in Amsterdam Center

Something is going on in the North

Don't know what is going on on the other side of 't IJ, but it was blowing too hard (and a little bit of rain) to feel the smallest bit of interest to cross the bridge to find out ....

Amsterdam and her bikes ....

Brains travel on ....

Little Statue on Bridge (Muntplein)

The lion that lives outside Artis

Pakhuis Chicago

PTA (Passenger Terminal Amsterdam)

St. Nicolaaskerk

Veemkade - Getting into the water

Jason Bridging

On the way to Java-eiland

Bridge to Oosterdokseiland

Overhoeks

To Bike .. Bikepath

NEMO

Amsterdam Central Station and Surrounding

100 posts done, many to come!

There where you can hear and feel the train, but can not see it....

Cruquiuskade Amsterdam Oost

on the way to the railwaystation

Many trains pass by on these railway when they make their way to Amsterdam Central Station.

Amsterdam Oost, Cruquiuskade

Oost indisch Zeemagazijn

Oostenburgergracht Amsterdam

Oosterkerk

The Oosterkerk was built between 1669 and 1671 by Adriaan Dortsman and Daniel Stalpaert.

Windmill The Gooyer

Just behind Brouwerij 't IJ (brewery 't IJ)you can find the windmill De Gooyer.
Built 1725, moved to its grounds in 1814.

Funen

Travelling from Utrecht, or Hilversum on the way to Amsterdam Central Station, you will pass this building on your left.

Oostenburgergracht

Oostenburgergracht, Amsterdam

Flowery bike

Sur place - Exhibition on urban bike culture

Nieuwe Amstelbrug 3

Nieuwe Amstelbrug 2

Nieuwe Amstelbrug

Designed by H.P. Berlage and opened in 1903, crossing the Amstel at the Ceintuurbaan

Stay or take away ...

Weesperpleinbeeld

Noordbrabantse schoenmakerij in Amsterdam Oost

Heaven

Oude Oosterparkschool

Herdenkingsteken SLM ramp ('s Gravesandeplein)

Monument ter nagedachtenis van de slachtoffers van de nl:SLM-ramp in 1989. De kunstenaar is Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe; het kunstwerk werd in 1991 geplaatst. De uitsparing tussen de drie aluminium platen beeldt een figuur uit. Het bankje met de zware zwarte steen hoort bij het monument. Het kunstwerk staat op het 's-Gravesandeplein in Amsterdam-Oost, niet ver van het café De Draver dat het stamcafé was van enkele van de overledenen.

Info: Wikipedia

Leftovers after Queensday

Amstel hotel

The InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam Hotel or Amstel Hotel is a five-star hotel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the east bank of the river Amstel. It was the country's first Grand Hotel.

Samuel Sarphati, a physician and city planner, took the initiative to build the hotel, although he died in June 1866 before the hotel opened. The first years after the opening in 1867 were not successful and hotel almost closed. Although the French-Prussian War started in 1870 and its subsequent financial consequences, business improved that year.
A young doctor by the name of Mezger began his practice in the hotel and attracted a special clientele. Although Mezger treated all kinds of people, the Amstel Hotel became famous for the many members of royalty and the nobility who stayed there for treatment. For eighteen years he saw his patients in the Amstel Hotel, until 1888, when Mezger left the Amstel Hotel and moved to Wiesbaden. The royal and noble guests kept coming to the hotel. Ever since, the Amstel Hotel has had a reputation for hosting numerous celebrities and other luminaries.

Information: Wikipedia

Amsteldijk

Torontobrug

Bridge I take to work four times a week ...

This bridge is numbered 350, and is build in 1970. Named after the city Toronto. This bridge gives the best of view of the famous Amstel Hotel.

We are animals!

Empty streets of Dappermarkt

Every day, except Sunday, this square (amongst others) is the scene of the Dappermarkt.
The Dappermarkt is a market in the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam-east and is one of the busiest markets of Amsterdam
In 1910, the Dapperstraat was officially designated by the municipality of Amsterdam as a market street. The Dappermarkt draws visitors from the all over the Netherlands. There are many products sold that of are interest to the city's residents of Surinamese, Antillian, Turkish, and Moroccan origin, giving the market and neighbourhood a strong multicultural feel.
National Geographic Magazine mentioned the Dappermarkt in its edition of November/December 2007. They called the Dappermarkt one of the top ten stands of shopping streets in the world.

Information: Wikipedia