Amsterdam Discovery

I wouldn’t say that anything I have found has been inherently cool, but one item I found in Amsterdam was definitely considered cool by my oldest daughter.

We were on holiday in Amsterdam and walking along the bank of the Amstel River. We came across this bedraggled looking teddy bear that had been put on top of a wall. My daughter immediately felt sorry for it because it was abandoned and wanted to take it with us. My wife said no, but I had felt the same as my daughter so we hung back slightly and I went back to pick it up! I had to make sure that my wife didn’t find it or it would have been thrown out, but luckily we got it back to England without detection.

The teddy bear was put in with the washing from the trip and it turned out to be a rather lovely looking pink bear which my daughter named Amstel. As she and her sister had such a large collection of cuddlies only my daughter and I knew that he was that bedraggled item we saw in Amsterdam. At the moment he is in our loft, but when my daughter gets properly settled I am sure he will once again take his rightful place in her home.