I was surprised how I wasn’t surprised about the women in the windows. If I was surprised, it was at how bored they looked, at the weird juxtaposition of the Oude Kerk being here, and at the view of it from the living room window of an apartment I went to here.

I was also surprised at just how lost I managed to get here, even with a map, and at the outdoor urinal, and the sign for it (sorry, no photo, I thought it might be considered impolite). I think it was this experienced that inspired me to buy a compass at the science museum in london.