I’ve got an apart­ment. It’s located at Prin­senei­land 75L (google maps).

From Wikipedia -

“In 1610 and 1615 three arti­fi­cial islands (Prin­senei­land, Bick­er­sei­land and Realenei­land) were build as an exten­sion of the har­bor. Until the end of the 19th cen­tury this was an area with many wharfs, lit­tle indus­tries and ware­houses, related to the ship­ping trades. After the sec­ond World war the des­o­lated area was dis­cov­ered by many artists (Jan Sier­huis, Johan van der Keuken, Jef Diederen, Reinier Lucassen, Peter Schat among oth­ers), who estab­lished their homes and stu­dios in the vacant build­ings. Dur­ing the sec­ond half of the 20th cen­tury the old ware­houses were trans­formed into apart­ments one after another, and new apart­ments were build. Nev­er­the­less a lot of the atmos­phere of the glo­ri­ous past is still present in the old build­ings and wooden drawbridges.”

It looked like this a cou­ple of hun­dred years ago -

Now it looks like this -

With my cur­rent loca­tion marked in there. Gracht actu­ally means canal, and that is a house, but since I’m an expat stu­dent I’m just gonna cheat.

My room looked like this yes­ter­day, but is cur­rently being painted.

I’ll be liv­ing with a mountaineer/consultant from Ams­ter­dam who makes cof­fee on trav­el­ling cook­ers and does yoga.

I’m really begin­ning to like Amsterdam.

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