{"id":9362,"date":"2010-08-25T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9362"},"modified":"2010-08-25T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:30:06","slug":"final-sights-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9362","title":{"rendered":"Final Sights in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The houses in Amsterdam are built on pilings and, because the piling settle, the houses shift with time .\u00a0As a result, all the older buildings are a bit crooked. How the windows and doors in some of these houses can continue to operate in the crooked walls is beyond me. The Sint Nicolaaskerk is\u00c2\u00a0a Roman Catholic church in Amsterdam, built in Neo-Baroque and Neo-Renaissance styles. At the front of the church are two neo-Baroque towers with a rose window between them. The Hotel Di-Ann is an impressive structure composed of five buildings between the Herengracht and Keizersgracht canals.<\/p>\n<p>And so, my European vacation\u00c2\u00a0came to an end. I walked the short distance from my hotel to the train station, took the train to the airport and headed back to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-Crooked-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9377\" title=\"Crooked House\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-Crooked-House-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Crooked House\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Crooked House<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Crooked House (Amsterdam, Netherlands), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 08 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-St-Nicolaaskerk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9378\" title=\"Sint Nicolaaskerk\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-St-Nicolaaskerk-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Sint Nicolaaskerk\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Sint Nicolaaskerk<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Sint Nicolaaskerk\u00c2\u00a0(Amsterdam, Netherlands), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 08 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-Hotel-Di-Ann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9379\" title=\"Hotel Di-Ann\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Amsterdam-Hotel-Di-Ann-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Di-Ann\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hotel Di-Ann<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Hotel Di-Ann\u00c2\u00a0(Amsterdam, Netherlands), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 08 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The houses in Amsterdam are built on pilings and, because the piling settle, the houses shift with time. As a result, all the older buildings are a bit crooked. How the windows and doors in some of these houses can continue to operate in the crooked walls is beyond me. The Sint Nicolaaskerk is a Roman Catholic church in Amsterdam, built in Neo-Baroque and Neo-Renaissance styles. At the front of the church are two neo-Baroque towers with a rose window between them. 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