Photos and words about what we've been up to
When we first arrived in Amsterdam we'd planned to rent bikes and spend a day biking into the countryside to see windmills. Unfortunately, it was a lot colder and rainier than anticipated so that plan didn't work out. However, there is one windmill on the East side of the city, not far from the Maritime…
Continue reading ➞ Day 7 in Amsterdam – Wind Mills & Walking!
Up front disclosure: this was the worst museum we visited in Amsterdam. And according to Wikipedia, it's famously bad: In 2013, there was a deadly shooting incident during the "Waterfront" festivity at the museum.[8] For the next three months, the museum was not allowed to rent out its space. After 2013, the number of visitors started…
Continue reading ➞ Day 7 in Amsterdam – Visiting Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
As you may have noted by now, we went to a lot of museums while we were in Amsterdam. Most of them were excellent - some of the best we'd ever visited. But not all met that standard. Enter: the Hermitage Amsterdam. The Hermitage Amsterdam is the sister museum of the famous Hermitage Museum in…
Continue reading ➞ Day 6 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Hermitage Amsterdam
During our time in Amsterdam we often saw people boating through the canals. It's a relatively popular form of leisure transit. While locals seemed to treat their boats as picnic spots - spending time meandering down the canals while drinking wine and snacking - we also spotted many (presumed) tourists paddle boating. After spending a…
Continue reading ➞ Day 5 in Amsterdam – Paddle Boating Through the Canals!
Amsterdam has a LOT of museums. The most popular is probably the Van Gogh Museum, which we did not visit because it required advance booking and/or booking a ticket to stand in line for a pre-scheduled time. We don't like to plan that kind of stuff ahead, so we skipped it. We'd also just seen…
Continue reading ➞ Day 5 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Stedelijk!
We started out our fourth day in Amsterdam by visiting the Tulip Museum for a quick visit. We then walked south through the city to visit their flagship art "quarter". The section of the city has several museums, and on this day we visited just one of them: the Rijksmuseum. I'd read about this museum…
Continue reading ➞ Day 4 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Rijksmuseum!
If you've been following the news stories about bitcoin lately, you may have heard some references to tulips and Dutch tulip mania. Or perhaps you've been to the Ottawa Tulip Festival, connected to WWII and the Dutch love of tulips. Either way, it's more than just a flower, which is why we stopped by the…
Continue reading ➞ Day 4 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Tulip Museum!
Our last museum stop of the day was the "Foam" Museum, a well-reviewed photography museum. Before the museum though, we needed a lunch break. On the advice of Esther from the Hungry Birds Food Tour, we had lunch at Tomaz, an old restaurant in the old part of the city. When we asked where Dutch…
Continue reading ➞ Day 3 in Amsterdam – Walking Lots & Visiting the Foam Museum
After visiting the Canal Museum, we planned to head over to the Foam Museum (more on that later). On the way, our walk took us past the Cat Museum, and of course we had to stop in for a visit. The Cat Museum is properly known as KattenKabinet or "Cat Cabinet". It's an art museum…
Continue reading ➞ Day 3 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Cat Museum
After visiting the Amsterdam Museum, we headed to the Canal House Museum, known as the "Museum of the Canals" or "Het Grachtenhuis". The museum is located in an old house along an older portion of canals and it was delightful. While visiting Amsterdam we visited many museums, and we found nearly all of them to…
Continue reading ➞ Day 3 in Amsterdam – The Canal House Museum
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