{"id":1587,"date":"2024-06-18T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2024-06-18T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:07:50","slug":"shopping-in-amsterdam-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/shopping-in-amsterdam-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping in Amsterdam (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 7 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to have a little girls’ weekend in Amsterdam. Mid-June should be ideal for good weather. We booked a small boathouse very close to the center with a parking space. Because, yes, we took the car, unfortunately so much cheaper than the train for two people. After a chaotic night, to make a long story short, we slept barely three hours, here we are on the road at 7 a.m. The weather is nice, that\u2019s good news. Should I mention a problem with the tires that had to be re-inflated urgently?! Or this gas station, the last in France before Belgium, whose toilets were out of order?! We arrive at our destination early in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Luckily my daughter\nknows how to use Google maps, we find our way among magnificent\nhouses by the water very quickly. A haven of peace calling into\nquestion where we live currently. We take a bus, then the metro. One\nstation later we reach the central station. And from there, we know\nour way well. It’s not our first time here, we’re comfortable, with\nour little habits. We go directly to the American bookstore. A\nmagical place that extends over two floors. We make purchases there\nand enjoy looking at the books. Then, it\u2019s the turn of the English\nbookstore, located just opposite. Don\u2019t ask me how many floors, I\nstopped counting as I climbed the steps! We were looking for a\nspecific book, but it wasn’t there either. Later, we will find it at\nthe Station Relay : The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada. Yet,\nanother third and final bookstore for the day, still in English, in\nwhich we love the concept \u201cA blind date with a book\u201d. A book\nbought \u201cblind\u201d wrapped in craft paper on which a few words are\nwritten to describe it. That’s all. It\u2019s both a surprise and an\nopportunity to read a new author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather is\ngetting darker, the clouds are rolling in, the rain is falling. We\nwill come back for good weather, obviously. To the way to the station\nit\u2019s really raining cats and dogs. We try to shelter ourselves. The\nwind blows so hard that the umbrella is useless. We would be flying\nlike Mary Poppins!
\nLet\u2019s go, one last stop at the Relay and\nback to the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 7 inch \u2013 Unique work We decided to have a little girls’ weekend in Amsterdam. Mid-June should be ideal for good weather. We booked a small boathouse very close to the center with a parking space. Because, yes, we took the car, unfortunately so much cheaper than the train […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}