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Travel Blogs from Amsterdam
The city of walking.....
... go for walk but decide not to worry about it. While it was cold about minus 1 it did not feel that cold( I am thinking it was some kind of jet lag induced heat we were felling). There was snow on the ground so it was a bit slippery in places. The city greeted us with all the Christmas lights and it was wonderful discovering little canals all lit up, we wandered around for about half on hour watching the city wake up and finally found a little cafe and ...
Amsterdam on our final day here
... and enjoying the sites on our way to the canal boat for a trip along the canals. This whole city is full of canals! Some interesting fact we learned: there are over 1.5 million bicycles inAmsterdam - more than there are people. I'll send some photoes After lunch we walked on out to the Hermitage Museum to view the Exhibit of Impressionist painters. The Van Gogh area was closed for renovations but we saw originals of Monet, pissarro, Renoir, ...
First weekend of independent travel: Amsterdam :)
... a trout with the wedding ring in its mouth and she proclaimed that the location was a golden valley which Golden valley in french, spelled backwards is Orval. It was really cool to see the ruins and you could even see in some of the pictures I posted the damage on the walls from when the building was burned down.
So moving on to the rest of the weekend in AMSTERDAM! It was awesome. There was so much to do and see! We arrived after being on a ...
Amsterdam, land of bicyclists.
... make for a nice rest day though. This morning we headed to the museumplien to view some Van Gogh. Apparently we were not the only ones with this in our agenda. Thankfully, having purchased tickets before leaving the U.S., we skipped the line and headed inside. The museum was quite crowded though, making it hard to see the paintings. Now typically, I'm one who enjoys art and museums, but I'm discovering I have a hard time with them first thing in the morning. I am the ...
Day 23-24 Cruising in Amsterdam
... clog factory were he made a new pair of clogs right then and there with a huge machine – amazing, also amazing is the lack of safety equipment but never mind… Anyway then we went through the shop eating more cheese looking at clogs before saying bye to the cute cows and heading on our way.
We arrived at Amsterdam pretty late and had only a short while to check in to ...