Floors

The floor in the stijlkamer was varnished and turned out so beautiful, we decided to put the rug in the front room instead. Also, we had a rug made-to-measure at Karwei, not realising it would be to big to be transported in the car. So we took the train to Weesp to pick it up. Mowing down several inattentive passengers we shoved into the train and then into the metro.
Having arrived safely at home, we found out there was a FREE extra rug inside!!
What a rugfest. But where to put it? In the kitchen of course.
Afterwards we took Trevor for a run in Amsterdam-Noord.

The stijlkamer rug in the front room

Mark on the train to Weesp...

...and back!

Hoovering the rug in the basement (4 by 2,5 m)

Free rug in the kitchen

Trevor and Mark on the Ferry back from Amsterdam-Noord

Fire!

Oh, the luxury...

Visitors

Claude and Nicky came around for a drink in the Stijlkamer.

Red tape, herring, eel and bakfiets.

Almost a week after moving, I had a day off to do odd jobs, such as changing my parking permit to the new address and picking up chairs.
Once at the out-of-town office of parking permits, a permit was denied because apparently we registered at the wrong address! I sped back into town and queued at town hall. It turned out the registry office and town hall use different systems. One calls the four apartments 125-I to -IV, the other 125H, 125-O, 125a and 125-I (Dutch logic for you). Anyhow, I had to reregister and retuned to the permit office to obtain my parking permit. Hours of queueing.
The second job was picking up a rental bakfiets to transport my grandparents' 40-odd year-old Artifort chairs that had been reupholstered to a slightly more grown-up colour than the purple they were reupholstered in 8 years ago for the Pax. Let me tell you: driving a bakfiets is not an easy job! The rather odd gear system allows forward cycling as fast as backward cycling. In order to slow down, one had to grab a ball between one's legs and yank it.

Anyhow, two jobs done. In order to reward myself, I got an eel sandwich and a herring sandwich. Verrukkelijk!

First day in the new house

Moving day

Today we are supposed to move. However, the work on the house is not finished. Marvel at our downstairs! Undaunted, we proceed anyway.

Antwerp express

We hired a van and a lift to bring furniture from Antwerp to Amsterdam for reupholstery. What a kerfuffle. At least the sun was shining!