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!
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!
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
Our third day in Amsterdam was a full day, and it started quite early. We were up by 7am and out the door to explore the city and find breakfast by 7:30am. Given how quiet we'd noted the nightlife to be the previous evening, we had suspected the city would be bustling in the early…
Continue reading ➞ Day 3 in Amsterdam – Visiting the Amsterdam Museum
We happened to arrive in Amsterdam during their week long Pride festivities. Our second full day in the city was the day of the famous "Canal Parade". In most other cities, Pride parades take place as a march through the streets, but this parade taps into the city's fantastic canal network, and thus both the…
Continue reading ➞ Day 3 in Amsterdam – Pride & the Canal Parade!!
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