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The Southern Church in Amsterdam - Monet painted this...
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canal in front of our hotel, the Pulitzer
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Amsterdam was popping as we hit peak tulip season - Dam square with the WWII memorial
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the best outdoor dining patio ever!
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IF there could only be one... we didn't meet a single person from Amsterdam that didn't hate bikes! (not that they didn't ride them) It is totally out of control sending many to the hospital each year and multiple deaths!
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gouda all over the place!
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the southern church from another angle..the city's first church built specifically for Protestant services constructed between 1603 - 09.
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one of the houseboats used in Ted Lasso's Amsterdam episode - haha
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the Waag House
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the Waag house is a remnant of the former city walls - famous for admitting paying members of the public to witness human dissections and featured in Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson" - the corpses were all criminals in life
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the Rijks dedicated to Dutch arts and history opened in 1798 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808
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open road through the Rijks
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the Night Watch - Rembrandt 1642 is his largest and was actually cut down in size at one point to fit on a wall in the town hall
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in the event of some kind of disaster this painting will lower through the floor to the outside
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inspiration for the cigar box - Dutch Masters
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outside the Van Gogh - don't miss this museum either
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this concert hall is world famous because of it's superb acoustics and has over 700 concerts a year
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the stacks at the rijks are located in the museum and regularly used
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loved this hotel! thanks Carissa!
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the Pulitzer was Amsterdam's first 5 star and is made up of 25 restored canal houses built in the 16 and 1700s
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love this city
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the busiest fast food joint neatly situated between 2 "coffee houses" i.e. pot shops
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the hooks on top of the houses are still used today to lift furniture to the upper stories - there used to be a tax on house width making staircase extremely narrow
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canals were built in the Dutch Golden Age - the 17th century to quickly transport food and goods to the city center and control water flow. Oh and they used to be open sewers...
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you can legally park these microcars on the sidewalk
