Our Day at Schiphol--in Photos

By Belinda

We are safely back in Canada after a 19 hour journey home. The journey shouldn't have been that long but our flight was changed from the one that I had booked, just before we left, meaning that we would have to be at Birmingham airport at 4.30 a.m. and then would have a 5 hour wait between flights, at Schiphol Airport

It was gruelling for Paul--it did make for a very long day; but I loved being surrounded by the Dutch language; people watching; visiting the art exhibition entitled Holland in Winter; reading and taking photographs. I made the most of the time and secretly enjoyed it. 


Here is some of what I saw at the beautiful airport.

I have more to tell, but  just now I am going to bed.





















Comments

Susan said…
Oooo. Your photos are stirring up a sense of adventure in me... I think it's time to plan another vacation! :)
10:19 PM
swissdebbie said…
Hi Belinda, it takes an "outlander" to see those things most dutch people, and me, will walk past without seeing them!
but then I have not been at Schiphol for a long time, fortunately both Geneva and Alicante flights land in Rotterdam.
Deb
12:25 PM
Belinda said…
Susan, then we'll just have to add Amsterdam to the Alvechurch itinerary. Ha ha!
5:09 PM
Belinda said…
Deb, Schiphol is decidedly Dutch! So gezellig! :)
5:10 PM
Marilyn said…
THANK YOU for bringing all this here. I love people watching, especially in airports. This was a beautiful one. And you captured the artwork with description! I would have done the same. I feel like you brought a place far, far away that I will probably never get to see here to me. What a treat this was!
9:15 PM
Belinda said…
Marilyn, Never say "never!" Who knows what God has up his sleeve? If he has sleeves that is. :)

One of the things I see in the photos is the life size poster of a woman pouring from a jug, from a Vermeer painting. She--a woman from almost 400 years ago, peacefully pouring away among all the busy travelers attached to their electronic gadgets.
9:27 PM
Belinda said…
Just noticed that in my memory it was a poster of the Vermeer painting, but it is a more clever display with the woman taken out of the painting and into the airport! :)
9:30 PM
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