Amsterdam Netherlands - Day 2

While in Amsterdam we thought it was important to check out some museums seeing as how we went on the Heritage Weekend where most of Amsterdam’s national monuments were free to see. So we headed to the Museumplein where we took a couple pictures in the park with the iconic I AMsterdam statue and then headed for the Van Gogh Museum. We spent a couple hours in the museum checking out over 200 of Van Gogh’s works. Overall I have never really been interested in art but I actually did like seeing some of Van Gogh’s pieces. Unfortunately all of the museums did not allow any pictures so I don’t have any pictures of any of the museums I visited. After the Van Gogh Museum we walked over to the Heineken factory, but after arriving we found that the tour was a bit more than we wanted to spend so we just check out the gift shop. At this time everyone was getting hungry so we headed over to the Albertcyprt street market and got a bite to eat. Once we finished checking out the outdoor market we headed for the Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands. I enjoyed this museum the most because I got to learn a bit about Dutch history. I was unaware how large the Dutch empire actually was back in the day. They were actually the first to colonize India even before the Brits. We also got to see a couple of Rembrandt’s artworks too. Since we are in Europe and there are really old churches everywhere in Europe we almost had to go see a couple of Churches so we checked out the Neuwe Kerk next to Dam Square. Seeing as how we spent the entire day looking at and learning about Dutch history and culture we thought we should check out a traditional Dutch restaurant. So we went back the Prinsengraht district to an area known as the Niners and found a restaurant that was packed with Dutch people and knew that this place was probably a good spot to grab a bite to eat. My meal at the Dutch restaurant was one of the best meals I have had so far in Europe. After we stuffed ourselves with food we headed back to Bob’s Youth Hostel and played some cards with a couple of the other people staying at the Hostel. But on our way back we ran into a Dutch rock concert so we hung out there for a while before heading back to the hostel.

The awesome resteraunt where we ate the traditional Dutch food.

The iconic I AMsterdam stature

In the back is the Rijksmuseum which is the Netherlands national museum but unfortunatly they were cleaning the old building so it was covered with scaffolding.

Me stuffing myself with some good Dutch food.

The Neuwe Kerk, or New Church, which is not that new seeing as how it was built in the 1800's

The Albertcyprt Market