The weather has been amazing since Sunday (it hits 60 in the day). Europeans love their parks! There were so many bikes out today, we saw a mom on a bike with her kid run into another bike and fall over. The poor baby's head almost landed on the pavement! That kid looked SCARED.
We had lunch at the Vertigo Cafe', which is part of the Filmmuseum on the edge of Vondelpark (a LOT like Audubon park in NOLA). Which brings us to our next traveller's note...
Traveller's Note: menus touting "chicken" on their sandwiches may actually be processed cold cut meat and NOT actual chicken breast. And apparently Fanta is THE drink around here.
Dispelled an interesting myth today: Van Gogh didn't cut off his ear and mail it to a prostitute. He got into a fight with Gaughin, chased him around with a razor, and then cut off his own ear in a self-hating, self mutilating fit. THEN Arturo told me he prefers Gaugin to Van Gogh. Doesn't he know Van Gogh is my homeboy? We might have to get divorced now.
Oh, so all the museums LOVE to have an email kiosk. You get to send a recorded message to someone for free (I'm pretty sure they're harvesting the email addresses). At least the Van Gogh one was more appropriate then the one at the Ann Frank museum.
Had dinner at a super-fantastic restaurant called Ghetto, then witnessed a fight and arrest in the red light district (see flickr pics for more).
2 comments:
I'm sitting here, detailing an elevator shaft for work and being so fucking jealous. All your pics are great. Did you go to the Filmmuseum? The one in Berlin is awesome. They have old props and sets from Metropolis, all the way up to Lola's outfit from Run Lola Run on a mannequin (in mid-run). Thong included.
But come to think of it, I don't know any cool Dutch movies. Or any Dutch movies.
Everything looks so clean there.
Hey Sara!
we did not make it past the cafe' of the Filmmuseum...pretty much because we were of the same (film) school of thought as you: What big Dutch movie memorabilia is there? oh, and the fear that they might actually make us watch an actual Dutch film.
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