European Adventure 2024, Day 10: A rainy, bookish day in Amsterdam

Excerpts from Dory’s Journal

Photo captions by Stephanie

Wearing thrift finds from Utrecht: peep Thomas’s denim coveralls and Vivian’s sneakers with cherries made from SKULLS. (photo: Stephanie)

Dory’s view of the Book Market. (photo: Dory)

My view of the market. (photo: Stephanie)

Day 10, 1:56 PM, July 5th, 2024

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hello! I am currently in a bookstore, and I have just bought some Isaac Asimov books from the book market. I was just reading I, Robot, a collection of short stories. It is currently raining, and we will soon go out and walk to an Albert-Heijn to get some food.

Yours truly,

Dorrel

That carrot cake was amazing. (photo: Stephanie)

Day 10, 3:35 PM, July 5th, 2024

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hello! I am currently in a Lush store, waiting while Sis and Mom do weird (illegible) (illegible) with their faces. We just visited some sorta women’s only neighborhood, where we saw a juvenile herring gull. We also got some typical Dutch weather raining down upon us, but we have rain jackets for that.

Yours truly

Dorrel

The photographer in action. (photo: Stephanie)

The photo he took of the juvenile Herring Gull. By “some sorta women’s only neighborhood,” Dory means the Begijnhof, which was a space for beguines to live. Beguines were nun-adjacent—they were religious and lived in community but did not take vows. (photo: Dory)

The metro stop we took on the way back had a particularly interesting set of escalators. (photo: Dory)