Monday after the weekend in France. A bit dull, but back to the normal everyday life. I went to a hardware store for some odds and ends for the apartment renovation. The rainy weather eased down for a small time of sunshine - and with some amazing colours! The photos I took are not enhanced for saturation, they are pretty much as is.
There's one funny twist to this location: there used to be some old water cleaning facility, decommissioned years and years ago. Even the Google satellite view still shows the old situation from at least 4 years ago: http://goo.gl/maps/vARqT
And the outcome: 12 photos to go, in chronological order.
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| They are busy building an apartment block. Already half a year gone, but on the other hand they are creating vast underground parking area into something that could be best described as wet sand. |
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| Modern day Dutch habits: using your smartphone while cycling. |
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| Not miniature tombstones, but warning posts for gas pipes. No idea why they have so many here. |
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| Rain + sun = rainbow! (Ends up in the hardware store Gamma, funny enough.) |
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| I guess those Liander cars have some sort of a nest nearby. They were constantly driving back and forth, here 2 of them. |
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| Even though this is not the centrum and despite the fact it's in the middle of the day, there was reasonably lot traffic. |
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| Only a couple of a years ago there was just wasteland, where this building now proudly stands. |
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| These charming buildings have been there, behind the railway and metro track, for a little bit longer. They are jail buildings - so criminals are the few lucky ones in whole Amsterdam who actually have a nice view :-P |
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| One just must love the colours with the after-rain light. |
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| Some cyclists were too fast for my camera. |
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| 180 degrees around, and you are greeted with a very different view. |
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| As a last photo, close-up on the grass littered with these white flowers. Feel free to inform me about their name :-) |
