To be done with my Holland vacations – the last bits and pieces of my stay there.
There was one more museum which we visited – the Rembrandt House. There are not that many Rembrandt’ paintings there, but to see the place where he lived and created his art was exciting. That was one of many times when I thought about me as a 14-year old studying Rembrandt in the Hermitage museum in then Leningrad. He is one of my most favorite artists, and I was thinking, that back then, forty-two years ago I won’t believe if anybody would tell me I will be walking these rooms.
A couple of words about the conference: the venue was the old Amsterdam stock exchange, and I can’t recall ever being present at the scientific conference in the building that old!
I didn’t even plan to go there, but then came this early breakfast problem and the fact that I didn’t want to deprive Boris of his morning meetings. So I’ve accompanied Boris there on Sunday morning. And a couple of people said hi, and I replied – I am actually not here! And Boris said something to the effect whether I could stop explaining everybody, that I am not participating.
Then I went to a couple of keynotes – I was already there anyway! And then I saw C. Mohan, and for those who know him, it’s not a surprise that I’ve got a picture with him!
And then I’ve asked a couple of questions to the speakers. And I talked to several people. Later I thought that giving all my this year’s circumstances and the fact that I am unlikely to go to any other conferences till the end of the year, I could very well register and leave not on the 3rd, but on the 4th of July… whatever 🙂
Here are my last Amsterdam pictures – a beautiful afternoon in a beautiful city.
Next the morning I took a train to the airport, and before that, we had the nicest breakfast ever!
Hettie's Reflections 
The Rembrandt House — yeah, that’s what I wanted to recommend for you personally; I knew that you’d love it. I also think it’s a pretty good way to learn about Holland lifestyle overall. (And the audioguide in this museum was particularly helpful and friendly.)
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Yes, this museum was excellent in terms of getting to know how people lived those days. For us it was the third one – after the VAn Loom house and the Church of Our Lord in the Attic (they have living spaces on display as well), so all three of them gave us a pretty good idea about people’s everyday life (the beds in the closets are really unique in this respect). And – yes regarding the audioguide.
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