My new favorite place to walk || Quay-side, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I love walking at watersides or just any place where no one knows me. I’m a sucker for places with good views, but who doesn’t? I like places where you can listen to your music without hearing someone screaming or talking loud near you. Just quiet places. Or just a place where you can sit with your friend and talk about everything and anything about life and future or just talking about good memories.

Here in Amsterdam we have a lot of canals. I love them but it’s not a place I want to be when I’m alone. It’s noisy during summer and cold during the winter. You just have to find the right place to sit.

If I lived in Newcastle then I would be here every night. And on sunday’s I would go to the market every morning. During day time you get a different feeling then during the night time. Both of them are nice but I have to say I like it more during the night time.

We used 2 different camera’s, it is a bit confusing for me and I think for you guys too. I don’t even remember what I snapped or what my friend snapped. But I still hope you like it!

Oh my, when you walk under the bridge where the birds are hanging out. You won’t like it, but it smells so bad.

 

After a day of shopping and walking, we wanted to snap some photos at night of the millennium bridge. We saw that sun was about to go down and what did we do? We ran out the hotel as soon as we saw that. And guess what? It was raining! But the rain wasn’t that bad. And what comes after rain when the sun was shining?

 

That’s right, a double rainbow. Okay here’s a fun little random story I want to share with you. As we were waiting for the lights of the bridge and shelter from the rain at a bus stop. There was a group of old chinese people. I couldn’t understand what they were saying because they were talking Wenzhou? But  suddenly they got all excited and were looking at the sky. We couldn’t see anything because of the bus stop and thought “Are they excited because of a bird or something?” And then we saw the rainbow! I’m not gonna lie, sometimes it feels like I belong in a group of asian tourists, even here in Amsterdam..

 

I love reflections in water.

 

As we were waiting, we were just sitting and talking till it was dark enough for the lights. I’m a person who doesn’t talk that much but when I feel comfortable with someone I can talk and talk and talk. But unfortunately, that doesn’t happen that much in my life.

 

And that’s how we ended our night at the Quay-side.

Playground of Rainbows and Mirrors || Daniel Buren, BALTIC

I enjoy going to a museum and I enjoy looking at boring paintings and sculptures. Should I tell you a secret? Well, it’s not really a secret but more a dream. I always wanted to have my own exhibitions or gallery with my art and everything I make. The funny thing is, I never want it to have it here in The Netherlands but just any place of the world except for here. It’s still a dream and I think it will stay as a dream.

Not so long ago I went to Newcastle, UK with my friend. (Or should I say “my sister” like every teacher at school says so.) We are the-not-two-sisters. Anyways I’ll get back to that later in my next post. I wanted to blog about this first because it’s one of the exciting things we did during our trip.

Going to a museum in an other country is really different than here. I think it’s more fun and nicer. The good thing about the museums in the UK or any other places of the world, is that it is free. Now I’ve been asking myself and everyone around me why you have to pay it here in the netherlands while in other countries they are free. I know that not every country does it but most ones that I visit does. Most people I know doesn’t like it to go to a museum just because it’s quite pricy. For me it’s okay since I have a museum card, even with this card at some places I still have to pay a bit for the entrance. What do you think of it when you’re visiting the netherlands?

(Yes it was a rainy morning)

Anyways, before we went to Newcastle we looked up for a nice museum to visit since we are both design students. And that’s how we found Baltic. Baltic is a contemporary art centre. Who doesn’t love contemporary art? But what is it exactly? I still haven’t figured it out, but oh what do I love it and I want to specialize myself in contemporary art too. (At some point)

We went there with the thought that it will take a few hours to wander around in there. But we were wrong. It tooked us less than 30 minutes (I think?). But that’s okay because it was pretty fun in there.

We didn’t know that that there was only 3 exhibitions in there. Unfortunately, I don’t have that much to show to you all. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures except for one flour. The playground of rainbow and mirrors. (That’s how I like to call it) The exhibition where we were allowed to take pictures was, “Catch as catch can: works in situ” By Daniel Buren.

 

 

 

Each corner of the mirror where you stand is different. The mirror is nicely and perfectly placed for the reflections of the colored windows. It’s a nice place to play with your standing point. I remember very clearly of when I was there, how happy and excited we were. I wonder if they colored the windows just for this exhibition..

And I can endlessly show you every picture I took of this but I will spare you the time and show you other nice things of the museum!

At the 5th or 4th flour you can go outside to enjoy of the nice view of the Quay side. Oh and hey they have some visitors too!

 

 

There’s also another thing what I like about museums, the shops! I can’t deny it but I’m pretty much a shopaholic and a design/craft addic. I love wandering around in a store full with books and little unnecessary things. Just because of the design or how cute it is. But I never get something from it, mainly because it’s a bit too overpriced. Even for a poster that I can probably make by myself too.

 

How cute is this? A while ago I found illustrations of this somewhere on the net too and I thought, why haven’t I ever thought about this too? It’s so cute and clever. I love it! If we had this during my chinese school years, I would love it to attend classes.

 

Do you love the Keri Smith journals too? I can tell you that I’m in love with it. But I never do something with it just because I’m lazy and tend to forget that I have a Wreck this journal in my shelf.

 

 

 

 

 

Well that’s all for now, more posts about my little trip will come!

 

LX