n8

Saturday last week was n8 day. It was the third onw since I'm here (the first was just 6 days after I arrived), but the first one I took part to.

It is great fun. Many museums are open until 2am, and with one single ticket one can visit them all. Time permitting. Yes, time is the biggest limitation: 7 hours sound like a lot, but, when there are so many museums to visit, they fly. And many people are around, so there can be queues.

My day:

• Rijksmuseum
• Van Gogh Museum (only the temporary exhibition about Barcelona, I had already seen the rest)
• De Appel
• failed attempt to get into the Foam, the queue was too long
• city archive (formerly a bank. The former vault of the bank has still steel doors)
• Stedelijk Museum (only the temporary Warhol exhibition, and not even all of it)
• Hortus Botanicus

And there was much more! But I can be satisfied.

Every cloud has a silver lining

Rain, rain... The more you see it, the more you should get used to it. Instead, all this rain makes me nostalgic of Italy. Not that in Italy it never rains... just not so often. In most years.

There is only one upside of this. There are lots of rainbows, also due to the variability of the weather, meaning that rain can fall and sun can shine in just minutes. Some days ago, a full bow
was visible from my office's window. And today, another rainbow while I was riding my bike (I was riding my bike while it was raining. Am I becoming Dutch?).

Rainbow between ships in Amsterdam harbour