While half -Bn’erland hunes itself in glitter and rainbow springs in front of the Pride, André van Duin picks up his briefcase – to the rustic Gooi. “I bought a flat there to flee the crowds.”
While Amsterdam is transforming today into a hysterical procession of boats, pink beats and sweaty or stewed bodies, André van Duin would rather look for it a few postcodes further down. A modest apartment in ‘t Gooi must offer a solution. Not only for the pride-printed, but also for the everyday cargo bike and beer-bike bike.
“I’ll stay here!”
André reveals in an interview with De Telegraaf That he bought a pied-à-terre in Het Gooi, near the home of his employer Omroep Max, where André is now one of the fixed household effects.
And in that pied-à-terra, André will hide today when the capital is full. When asked if he is still going to Pride, he says: “No, me too busy. I will stay here for a while.”
Far too busy
The capital has become far too noisy, André believes. “I think Amsterdam has become way too busy anyway and that is why we bought a flat this year, an apartment in ‘t Gooi, precisely to avoid that crowds.”
He continues: “Often it is not doing. When I have to go to Hilversum, I often spend an hour and a half getting out of the city and then fifteen minutes on the highway. What a hassle, I will go to the eighty, haha.”
Rotterdam
For the time being, André will continue his home in Amsterdam, although he indicated that he was still in doubt in the Story last month. “You never know how life goes and I think Amsterdam will be very full. There are many tourists. You are busy for 45 minutes to get out of the city.”
“Fernando and I have not yet thought about where we were going to live if we left Amsterdam. It is not necessarily the case that I go to Rotterdam, even though I was born there. Although I always stay a Rotterdammer.”