Amsterdam was one of my favorite trips. I visited some great museums and really enjoyed what I learned about and saw while I was there. I also, of course, enjoyed the company of my two travel buddies, Wes and Nate. Here are a few pictures of what I saw and did while I was there.
Bikes were everywhere. It is probably their most largely used mode of transportation, which is handy because they have so many canals that it makes automobile travel a bit more challenging than most places.
This is the outside of the Anne Frank House (writer of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl). It is a now a museum, but was the house in which Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis during WWII--an amazing story from a tragic time in history. The museum was very well done, thorough, interesting, and informative.
This is a picture of one of the very many canals in the streets of Amsterdam.
The Heineken Brewery is in Amsterdam; however, unfortunately, it was closed when we were there. We decided to try some at the local pub, instead.
The Van Gogh Museum was another of my favorite parts of visiting Amsterdam. Vincent Van Gogh's story, from when he started working with his brother as an art dealer to picking up the brush and creating his own works of art to trial and error of different techniques and then mastery, is fascinating and inspiring. I love the colours and the content of his paintings.
Some Dutch Architecture from the outside. Sidenote...The staircases in the hotel where we stayed were extremely steep, almost like climbing a ladder. Their houses and buildings also go up several floors, as you can see, these are at least 4-5 stories tall. Many houses and buildings have hooks on the front near the roof, so that they can use pulleys to hoist up furniture and things to the upper floors.
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