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Amsterdam was my last destination. By this time I felt a real traveller living only from a suitcase and calling home the hotel rooms I passed through on this trip. So far I counted almost 40 cities, 18 countries, 3 special regions, 33 flights, 38 hotel rooms and about 95 days of travelling!

Light has been always important in Painting and is a source of inspiration for many artists. Netherlands was the birthplace for some of the most famous painters in art history and since I was in Amsterdam it seemed to me to be the ideal place to explore light in painting. A limited schedule and a queue that wrapped around the building made me avoid the Van Gogh Museum. This appeared to be the obvious option, but I accepted the suggestion by Rogier Van der Heide who I had met a few days before, and instead I headed to the Rijksmuseum. In here you can admire some of the art pieces by the likes of Rembrandt and Vermeer.