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Dutch Bleu: Confessions of a Clothing Mule


My friend Cathy is currently on the road in Europe for 5 weeks on Randy Newman’s European tour. When it became clear that our schedules allowed for us to overlap in Amsterdam for a few days, I immediately asked Cathy if there was anything she needed me to bring from Los Angeles. Cathy confessed there were a few tops at our mutual favorite store, Bleu Clothing, that she wouldn’t mind me bringing in my suitcase. As a woman who travels a lot I know how much sometimes you get sick of the clothes in your suitcase and would love to add something new into the rotation.

So now I am here in Amsterdam, as a Bleu Clothing mule.

Me & my friend Cathy at Gabrielle's baby shower (photo by Rebecca Adler Rotenberg)

Me & my friend Cathy at our friend Gabrielle’s baby shower (photo by Rebecca Adler Rotenberg). The Bleu bag looks lovely against the Delft Blue fabric in the sitting room of suite 323.

Confession: sometimes I mule clothes for friends. I also have been known to mule French and British iTunes Gift Cards so that friends can keep current and legally download ITV series “Downton Abbey” and the BBC’s “Thick of It.”

Here are some Amsterdam photos from my first day and night on the Amstel.

The rug in the entry to The Amstel Intercontinental Hotel

The rug in the entry of The Amstel Intercontinental Hotel

Dutch ATM Drive up

Dutch Biker Gang

Rembrandt Square

Dutch Biker Gang & Rembrandt Square – photos of cycling in Amsterdam

Amstel Intercontinental Amstel IntercontinentalMy view from room 323 at the Amstel Intercontinental Amsterdam

My view from room 323 at the Amstel Intercontinental Amsterdam

Room 323, mobile photography

The sitting room of executive suite 323

Package from Bleu in the sitting room of executive suite 323


Tulips in Amstel Intercontinental, mobile photography

Self-portrait at the Amstel Intercontinental & Amsterdam tulips in the hotel lobby

Bar LempickaBar Lempicka, Mobile photography, IPH100

Bar Lempicka