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30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Red Windmill
The theory is that the street that his building is on used to end at a red windmill.
Windmill in Dutch is windmolen.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Slanted Boat
This translates to “Saint Peter’s boat may be inclined” or ‘slanted small boat”
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Flag
That’s the Dutch flag, but I don’t know what it says. The words seem Italian or Spanish, not Dutch.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: The Three Shamrock Leaves
This is now the home of a meditation place. See https://drieklaaverblaaden.com/
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: street name
This might translate to “porridge bridge street” but it’s unclear.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Geurt Brinkgreve
Many of Amsterdam’s restored buildings are still here today because Geurt Brinkgreve fought to restore buildings in the city center after WWII and through the rest of the 1900s.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Measures
Maat means measure, but kooren translates to choir, so this one doesn’t make sense to me.
30 Days of Amsterdam Gable Stones: Hourglass
this is a tribute to a monument keeper. See https://www.amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/binnenstad/194/gevelstenen.html
The Adventures of Lorie and Brian Groth 