We arrived at Schiphol, the famous Amsterdam airport at 7:15 PM. It was gray and raining. We took at nice train to Amsterdam’s Central Station, then a subway. We walked around in the rain, trying to find Nancy’s house, and after several inquiries, we found her tall, skinny, iconically-shaped, brick Dutch house. After cheerful greetings, with my sister and her family, Nancy gave us a tour through her heritage-designated house which was built in 1640.
Her living room was comfortably and tastefully adorned, and like the rest of her house, very narrow, maybe 16 feet from wall to wall, but deep, with the kitchen at the far end. A steep, squeaking, wooden staircase in the living room, led to bedrooms on the several upper floors above. Nancy, who is an Internationally-known knitter “the Queen of Brioche” https://knitwithfriends.pt/en/blog/speaker/nancymarchant/ used a couple of the smaller upper rooms, for storage of the skeins and skeins of accumulated colorful yarns, and other knitting supplies.
Above, is a painting that I did of Nancy’s house. It is the dark-colored house on the right. If you look carefully, you can see Homer, Nancy’s cat, peeking out of the corner of the window beside the door.
You can view my other paintings at: davidmarchant2.ca
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