Where art thou, Vero Moda?

In Berlin, just minutes before we boarded our train to Prague, Sheilla went into a Vero Moda store that was in the train station. There, she saw a bag "of her dreams". She immediately fell in love with it. The bag, she claimed didn't cost that much, and it was big, they way she liked it. However, Lisa suggested to get the bag in Italy, where she presumed would be better. Little did she know, there were no Vero Moda in any city we visited after that, not even in Paris. Thus, Sheilla had to find the bag she found in Berlin, somewhere in one of the Vero Moda stores in Amsterdam. There were about 3 or so that we were able to go to on foot. So today, "our" objective was to go to a Vero Moda and buy the bag.

We made it to Leidseplein, where we came across Bagels & Beans that Masha had told us during the time we were first in Amsterdam about 3 weeks ago. Since we haven't had our breakfast, we saw a good opportunity to give bagels a try.


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I had to admit, their bagels were great. I had one with smoked salmon, while Sheilla ordered one with sliced ham. As the pictures illustrate above, needless to say, we were satisfied.

With our stomachs filled, we were energized to scour through the streets of Amsterdam (particularly along Leidsestraat street) to find Vero Moda stores, and ultimately the bag.

We did find the Vero Moda stores, but we did not find the bag. And just like that, we knew that the bag found in Berlin, could only be bought in Berlin. Sheilla's instinct should had been followed. To compensate for not getting the bag, she went to a store called River Island and bought a pair of jeans shorts.

The day was still young, and dinner time was not quite so near. I had asked someone previously for the location of an Internet cafe. Luckily there was one off of Leidsestraat street. So I remained in there for about an hour to finish up the blog on Bordeaux and Paris. Meanwhile, Sheilla went to other shopping stores, hoping for a luck in finding a similar bag to Vero Moda's bag. After no success, she retired from shopping for the day. I accomplished what I wanted to do, which was to simply continue with the next part of the blog.