This morning our Airbnb host fed us a delicious Dutch breakfast which included croissants, local cheese, and smoked salmon. Afterwards, we rushed to the Van Gogh Museum!
The Van Gogh Museum was amazing! The audio tour was an extra charge which is something to keep in mind if you ever visit. It was helpful, though. The museum took us through both his art and the story of his life which was of course quite sad. We loved seeing his art though! It is amazing seeing it in person because you could see just how much paint he used. I can’t even imagine how long those paintings would take to dry!
Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures of his art so this is about all we got. We highly recommend the place though!
The Museum Quarter has some delicious food huts where I ordered some chili and Bailey ordered this crazy hotdog! The food here in Amsterdam is much superior to any other city’s food we have tried this trip.
The most superior food here, of course, are the stroopwafels. These things seriously rock!
By that time we needed to head to the Anne Frank house for our scheduled ticket time. We didn't take pictures inside of the museum so I’ll just tell you a little bit about it. It takes you through her father’s office building, which their secret hiding space was attached to. Along the way we had an audio tour (which was included in the price!) and that gave us some history of the war and what it was like in the area, as well as how it affected Anne and her family specifically. We were able to go into the actual hiding space and even see Anne’s room, which still had the pictures she had pasted to the wall. There was no furniture in their hiding place, because Otto Frank (Anne’s dad, the only one in the group who survived the concentration camps) did not want there to be any. There was a very sad and even kind of eerie feeling there. It was really eye opening to be up there in the dark as they would have been. I don’t know how they stayed there for so long! I wish that story had a happy ending, but I love how Anne’s diary was published so that we could all learn from her life.
It was a sad place, but we do recommend the Anne Frank house for a visit! We then went to Rembrandt’s house which had a totally different vibe. He was one rich dude, and we loved seeing his grand house! There were some beautiful paintings there, but unfortunately only about three were done by Rembrandt himself. This painting was not done by Rembrandt, but here I am demonstrating the use of their (free!) audio guides!
My favorite part of the tour was seeing his studios! They had them set up as if he was painting, and the light was just gorgeous in there. I forgot to take a picture of course.
Three museums is probably enough for the day, so we grabbed some pizza and spent a little while walking around. The canals are so beautiful, and the houses are so cute! Amsterdam is just charming!
We hit Primark one last time for our trip, and then called it a night.
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