Anne Frank House (Anne Frankhuis) Amsterdam

I wake to an alarm a mere 3 hours after I had set the damn thing, good idea Adam!
Nevertheless, off to Amsterdam I was, hangover and all!
I caught up with the girls (Kayla and Sarah) as they had the same flight before going our own ways at the airport as the friends I was staying with picked me up as soon as we had got in.
Maggie and …

Okay so Amsterdam was nothing like what I was expecting. I was actually expecting to hate it, but agreed to go since everyone else in my program was. So glad I went. Don'r worry mom, it's so much more than prostitution and marijuana haha.

First off, we stayed in a Marriott, which was ideal considering we heard awful stories about the local …

We slept in really late today...not sure why we were so exhausted. Got our train tickets to Amsterdam for 50 euro and hopped on the train at 1220. The ride took about 2 hours. Tried the ATM as soon as we got to Amsterdam Central and it worked, thank God! We had to get on the tram to Westermarkt stop and from there we found our hotel right away. …

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We finally have some downtime......we are on the bus headed towards Germany. Amsterdam was very busy. Laurie went to so many museums I can't remember them all! It has been an interesting place to visit. We arrived at Schiepol …

Yesterday, we arrived in Amsterdam by train to be greeted by hundreds, possibly thousands of pushbikes! I have never seen so many in one place and they are all very old style, no colours or paintwork. Amsterdam is a city where many of the population of 750,000 are young people with 1 000 000 visitors coming to the city each year.

We ate a …

Entry containing 4 photos titled: canal rides, grass hopper cafe, A LOT OF PEOPLE RIDE BIKES IN AMSTERDAM, COFFEE SHOP

Day 36 - Bruges to Amsterdam
After managing to crawl out of bed at a reasonable time, Shardee and myself headed to the chocolate museum/factory ¨Choco Story¨ for around an hour. After half an hour of somewhat interesting chocolate history, we attended the demonstration of making a chocolate praline cream. They made it look easy, and the free …

Amsterdam was one of the most interesting places any of us have experienced since being abroad. It was a quaint town with adorable houses and canals inbetween every street..but then a coffeeshop and red light district on every corner, it was unusual. Also, it seemed so americanized- everyone spoke English, even the movies played in it, and they had …

4 days in Amsterdam with Laura.

So glad I finally made it to Anne Frank's house. Last time I visited Holland we only made it to Amsterdam for an afternoon and spent much of it locked in an extremely dull diamond museum. I read her diary aged 9 and loved it so it was really quite special to walk in Anne's room and see the pictures she's …

Our suggested trail in Holland is along the flat, yet surprising coastal polderland, from the Hook of Holland to Haarlem. Walking in the precious and bracing dunescape, which faces the North Sea, takes in some delighful coastal resorts and nature reserves. For a city break, Amsterdam is close by, revealing some interesting sights rarely found in …

... which we attended on Tuesday evening. Monday and Tuesday Kel and I wandered around the city and took in the sights - Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Historical Museum, the Rijks and Van Gogh museums, with the Van Gogh exhibit being a highlight. On ...

... just took the train into central Amsterdam (as that route is covered by the rail passes). We started out by going to the Anne Frank house and James got us lunch and icecream cones while I (Jackie) stood in line and waited...more lines, ugggh. The ...

... ; So I somehow made it there and saw only 3 people in the ticket line, a big contrast to the Anne Frank House which definitely had a line visible from 100 yards away.   After Van Gogh, I did some souvenir shopping, sent a ...

... paint, they are all really textured and the prints that you see in books just don't capture that at all.   The Anne Frank house (museum) was also very touching.  This museum is in the house that Anne lived in with her family during the time ...

... used to walking everywhere. Other activities included going to the zoo, where Julia bought postcards for friends, visiting the Anne Frank house, going to the flower market where they bought sunflowers for Melanie (who was working), taking a canal boat ...

... where service is typically mediocre at best. The atmosphere was beautiful and the food was delicious. In addition to the Anne Frank house and other well-known museums, they visited the Dutch Resistance Museum, which explains the history of the Nazi ...

... On Saturdays it was open until 10pm. We were correct on our assumptions and there was no line at all. I had toured the Anne Frank house before but I was reading the book again because I knew I'd be coming back. The story makes so much more sense when ...

... twist. It was, umm, an experience. We'll leave it at that. The next day my one thing on the checklist was the Anne Frank House. I think they expect people to know the basics of the story, but the museum is still well done, leading you around the ...

... stores sell these for 29-89 euro, but Chris is finding them for around euro 10. He has even found the replica of the Anne Frank house and one of the Rembrandt house. The owners are allowing us to keep our bikes in the back part of their gallery. This ...

... the Singel Flower Market, the Cat Boat, the Aalmeer Flower Auction ("amazing"), the Red Light District, the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Dam Square and the Anne Frank House. We did a lot of walking and went up and down many many stairs. And of course ...