Amsterdam is great! We weren't there for long enough to go to museums and stuff (though we did spend a brilliant day wandering around Artis Zoo - but that's only because friends are members and had free tickets; I'm told it's expensive otherwise), and unfortunately there was a football match on and the fans were asshats (there are statues representing The Night Watch on the Rembrandtsplein and they HAD FOOTBALL SHIRTS ON), but it's a nice city to walk around.
I enjoyed one evening when we just walked from pub to pub and drank iced tea and looked at people and canals and stuff. Obviously if you do have time to look around places like the Anne Frank house and the Rijksmuseum then things will be awesome. We did go and stand outside Rembrandt's house and that was really strange; I stood on the doorstep (I stood on Rembrandt's doorstep!) and tried to imagine the city as it looked through his eyes. When we can go there with more time and money, we'll actually get to go in.
One warning: the market on the Waterlooplein (if they even have it this time of year?) is pretty crap - same novelty t-shirts, beads and clothes-hippies-like as in every other open-air market and alternative shop in the Western world, and just as overpriced. We did find a good bookstall though, with incredibly cheap Dutch comic albums, so yay that...
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Date: 2009-01-19 01:54 pm (UTC)I enjoyed one evening when we just walked from pub to pub and drank iced tea and looked at people and canals and stuff. Obviously if you do have time to look around places like the Anne Frank house and the Rijksmuseum then things will be awesome. We did go and stand outside Rembrandt's house and that was really strange; I stood on the doorstep (I stood on Rembrandt's doorstep!) and tried to imagine the city as it looked through his eyes. When we can go there with more time and money, we'll actually get to go in.
One warning: the market on the Waterlooplein (if they even have it this time of year?) is pretty crap - same novelty t-shirts, beads and clothes-hippies-like as in every other open-air market and alternative shop in the Western world, and just as overpriced. We did find a good bookstall though, with incredibly cheap Dutch comic albums, so yay that...