T
emperatures have gone down quite sharply in the last few days and so Gemeente Amsterdam is opening the Winter Shelter a couple of days earlier. In fact, the first time I was here in winter 2014, it didn't open until 18th of December. Last year it was 1st of December.
The note in the photo says "winter opvang gaat 28 Nov Open" - Winter Shelter will open 28 November.
The global warming in effect!
So, now after my next night in at Stoelenproject, I will be in for 3-4 months at the winter shelter. It is not that great, kicked out by day, and patted down by night on entry, but dinner and breakfast, shower and bed. Better than the half the time searching for a safe place to sleep, and complicated access to washing facilities at least.
I came back to Amsterdam because I knew this was coming. Getting a welfare payment requires first a record of where I am sleeping. The DWI, the dutch welfare agency, administers the winter shelter, so it bypasses this rather silly step, and I can get a payment which I will be powering up until I have enough to properly relocate to Novi Sad, my planned destination, which I learned about thanks to @deearchi 😎
So the good news is I sleep warm and dry every night from now. w00t!
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.
I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel
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