From Julia, The Netherlands, August 2017

01 August 2017

Julia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I wanted so much to share an elegant picture, but this is what it means to me to live in Amsterdam: Being practical (and being on two wheels). This is from the day we moved into our newly purchased apartment, a slightly damp November morning – I went ahead to move the essentials: laptop, toilet roll, sushi, gratuitous firefighters calendar. Inspired by the daily sight of pragmatic commuters with oddly laden bikes, I love how this answers all my UK car driving friends main question who can’t comprehend travelling everywhere by bike: What do you do if you can’t fit everything in your basket?

Julia

This postcard is one of several collated as part of collaboration between Dr Michaela Benson and the Migration Museum. A selection of these appears in the Postcards from the British in Europe installation in Departures, the museum's current exhibition exploring four centuries of emigration from Britain, bringing Britain’s emigration story and its emigrants into the national conversation about migration

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Julia in Amsterdam