and it’s all thanks to yesterday’s outing…
Noting that it was time for me to get out, kick back a little, play with friends, and breathe a little air, I spent the day with my friend Hayley and my newest friend, her bub Elliott who is just 6 weeks old. I haven’t seen him for four weeks and I have missed him. He is the cutest little guy, such a joy to be around, and so content. The three of us went for a walk around the Jordaan (oh how I’ve missed Amsterdam!), bought a delicious salad and baguette at Small World, and took it to the park to sit in the sun. Elliott of course napped most of the time in the shade, and we had lots to catch up on. Then we walked on over to the Westergasfabriek which is an awesome centre full of art galleries and shops. We had a tea and latte at the espressofabriek which serves excellent coffee, and the tea was probably the best I have had in Amsterdam yet – served in beautiful Japanese bowls and when I asked for milk and honey the waiter was more than happy to serve it! It was such a lovely day out, and is exactly what I needed. But with all that sunshine, when French Boy came home he took one look at me and smiled and said “you’ve got colours”. That is a direct translation from French for “you are sunburnt”. And I just love it, it sounds so much better than being sunburnt doesn’t it? So today, happily, I have colours.
Hi. I found you through Yoli last week and so far I am loving your blog :-). Glad you had a fun day and I love “you have colours”, lovely French :-).
June 18th, 2008 | #
Hello Pia,
As new reader,I just wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed visiting your website/blog,and reading about all of your adventures,and interesting work that you do,along with all the other interests you have.Your quite the busy woman!
You definitely earned,and deserved your outting yesterday for some sun,and fun!
June 18th, 2008 | #
sounds like a perfect day and ending it with “you’ve got colours” is fantastic…so do the two of you speak only in english or…?
nancy
June 18th, 2008 | #
haha! What a great saying. I might borrow it 🙂
June 18th, 2008 | #
lovely outing, a friend, a baby , a baguette tea & a latte now that is a perfect day…….
June 18th, 2008 | #
glorious day, and nice words. My husband and I intend to visit Amsterdam at some point this year and I enjoy reading your tales of this city.
June 19th, 2008 | #
hehhe! your right that’s so much better than the image of being burned by the sun !
Looks like it was a beautiful day in Amsterdam, here too we had a lot of sun but not really hot (can’t wait to stretch out at the swimming-pool under a 30°C sun).
June 19th, 2008 | #
i join a few of the comments above in saying how much i love your blog, even though i just recently discovered it… 🙂
June 19th, 2008 | #
Oooh, it does sound a lot better … oh how I’d like to see the sun. Sydney- and where I am a little north of that – has been overcast for weeks. We get little glimpses of sun and stars (and who knew but there’s a full moon about too) but none of that glorious autumn sun I love. Sigh.
June 19th, 2008 | #
Oh what a lovely way to say it! “Having colours” has been an integral part of my youth and to me it marks the beginning of summer. As much as I try to always wear sunscreen my fair skin always goes a bit pink. I think I would break down if I ever found myself cooped up during the summer. “having colors”, I will have to remember that.
June 19th, 2008 | #
In Spanish is the same as French: “tienes color”
🙂
June 19th, 2008 | #
Hi Annie, Kelly and Joanne, thank you so much for letting me know you are new readers, welcome to the (blog)house! really glad you like it, thank you.
nancy, we speak english most of the time, but i try to encourage french as much as possible, i’d like to be fluent and i’m not exactly that right now!
krissy, go for it! i think we should all use it now – whenever i am out in the sun (like you Emily), my skin goes pink straight away, even if I am not burnt, and everyone always says, “oh you are burning!”. Now I will say “No, I just have colours”.
Nadia, it was indeed.
Jeska, I hope you do come to visit, it really is a beautiful city.
Sofia, it’s the same weather here – it is not at all hot in fact today is windy and rainy!
Katie Cracker nuts – love that name! Brings a smile to my face when i see you ahve left a comment. bummer about the lack of sun.
Esti, cool! I really like this saying. Let’s all use it from now on!
xx
June 19th, 2008 | #
i got ‘colours’ yesterday as well, but in the hot australian sun on australia day at a beach eating vegemite sandwiches.
January 27th, 2010 | #