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Amsterdam, 2018

Two hours walking in the city I once lived.

By Ash Furrow

November 26^th, 2018

I returned to Amsterdam for just a few days to present at a conference back in April. These photos of are the spring, so hopefully it will remind you what is at the end of the incipient winter.

My wife and I moved to Amsterdam in 2014, and I hadn't been back since we left to move to New York. My flights and the conference schedule only afforded me a few hours to walk around the city, so I did some quick wandering through my old neighbourhood.

Oosterpark was a nearby park that my wife and I often went to for walks. It's a dreary place in the sprint, but that's kind of why I like it. The construction that had been underway while we lived here completed.

This photo below was taken aboard a street car that is turning to the left. With a slower shutter speed, it gives a really cool blur effect where the picture seems to rotate around the radius of the streetcar's arc.

Of course, a trip to my old neighbourhood wouldn't be complete with a stop by Coffee Bru, my favourite café. It's weird how a lot of the neighbourhood buildings had changed, but there were many that looked the same.