1 July 2010
The next day I took a walk and got some pastries for breakfast at a bakery. I searched for a take out coffee shop but couldn’t find one. It turned out we had free coffee at the hotel but I didn’t notice until the next day. Amsterdam was rather easy to get around in because most people spoke English but a bit more difficult because I did not know any Dutch even though much of it is similar to German.
In Amsterdam Laurie and I went for a walk in the morning but due to the spoke like nature of the city we walked further than we intended.
In Amsterdam we first went to the Rijks museum. This was a combination history/artifact/painting museum with many of the large famous Rembrants & Vermeer paintings including the “Girl Pouring Milk.” “Girl with a Pearl Earring” was on loan to den Haag. We bought a train ticket to get to Centraal Station and then another for 24 hours. (We thought we had to go to Centraal station to get the travel pass) Unfortunately we could have gotten the 24 hour ticket at the VVV by the hotel.
For lunch we had sandwiches from vendors outside the Rijks Museum.
Next we went to the Anne Frank haus which made us all cry. The windows are always kept with black shades to remind people what it was like while they were in hiding. After that we went to the Van Goh museum so as not to waste our day and stayed until closing. Next we went to look for supper downtown. We went to a dutch pancake restaurant. The pancakes were poor, burnt crepes & syrup was extra for 9 E each thin pancake. We found out we should have looked for food further out of town as those places were packed with people.
After dinner we took Matt back to the hotel then Laurie and I went for a walk through the RLD.
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