We had an awesome time in Amsterdam and we are already talking about when we should come back.
One of the first things we noticed is all the bikes. Everyone rides their bikes everywhere, packing everything onto them from groceries to babies (sometimes more than one baby). Below is a picture of a 3 storey bike parkade outside Centraal Station.
Our first day (June 24) Andrew and I stopped into one of Amsterdams' famous coffee shops. It must be a popular spot because there were pictures of both Brad Pitt and George Clooney behind the bar.
Next we went on a canal cruise to learn about Amsterdam.
June 25, we went walking around Amsterdam. It is the most gorgeous city we have ever seen. There are so many beautiful canals (over 100km).
Andrew and I have taken up people watching. We spent some time sitting on this bench watching people go about their daily activities. This is actually a large bridge over a canal. The buildings everywhere are really beautiful.
We also spent part of two afternoons at this bench looking onto a canal watching boat traffic.
This is the canal we were looking onto (our spot was on the left part of the canal where it narrows). Here, we saw a boat collide into the wall, a boat traffic jam and, what made me laugh so hard I cried, 3 girls trying to get down the canal on a paddleboat. They couldn't figure out the steering, so they went swerving from one side of the canal to the other hitting the walls. At one point they thought they had it figured out, and started to clap and cheer, only to find themselves spinning into a wall seconds later. We almost died.
Here is a picture of some of the boat traffic on a bigger canal.
Today we went to the Anne Frank House. It was really interesting to see the house and the memorial.
We also found the best grocery store of all times called Albert Heijn. We found the best cheese there and baguettes that had just come out of the oven and were still hot.
Tomorrow we are off to Brussels. We are going to really miss Amsterdam, but we will be back... someday.
Looking pretty tanned there, guys.
ReplyDeleteWOW!! Everything looks like fun!! Thank you for doing all the leg work for us, as know we'll know the best places to go and stay at!! (hee hee).Looks like we'll have to put Amsterdam on our to do list! WE'll miss you at the Darci's wedding, but we know you're having a blast!
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