Location

The house used to face the sea (Zuiderzee), as you can see on the map (at bottom tip is where the house is located). When a new train station was built on an island right in front of it, the Oosterdok was created, blocking the sea view. Later the Afsluitdijk (Close Off Dike) was built (in the 1930s) in the north of the country, effectively turning the Zuiderzee into a body of freshwater, fed bij the IJssel, a branch of the Rhine.
Later the street changed its name from Buitenkant (Outside) to Prins Hendrikkade (Prince henry Quay).
In 2002 I lived on a houseboat on the Binnenkant (Inside), just 50 metres away.