Looking back, Amsterdam was a weekend full of walking, sightseeing and enjoying the company of my friends. And maybe eating a bit or stopping for a drink from time to time. Overall it was just a wonderful weekend, which was a bit on the cold side. In any case, Amsterdam should be on everyone’s list to visit. There is a lot to see and do. Yours, Pollybert
G’s Jordaan doesn’t really have an amazing breakfast. It was good and filling and the whole place is very much like a living room. They do have outstanding drinks though in the morning. Really, a ‘passion in the morning’ makes a morning so much brighter. Apparently I was not the only one who needed a drink on our last day.
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let’s start the morning with a drink at G’s @Amsterdam
And when you start the day with a drink there is also room for a waffle.
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you need to try waffles @Amsterdam
Don’t you find that the houses in Amsterdam resemble gingerbread houses? Maybe it’s just me being hungry: but looking at them, wants me to take a bite out of them.
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gingerbread houses @Amsterdam
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a view on the garden of the Museum Willet-Holthuysen @Amsterdam
Do you wish sometimes that you can live on a houseboat? And that when everything gets too much, you just take off and go some place new? Amsterdam has houseboats all over the canals. It’s such a neat sight. And of course the ever-present bicycles are also in the picture.
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houseboats and bicycles are typical for this city @Amsterdam
When houses are starting to lean away from each other because of the soft underground, they get kept together with some kind of construction.
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leaning houses @Amsterdam
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museums all around, the Van Gogh Museum is to the right @Amsterdam
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I wonder if bicycles are stolen a lot here @Amsterdam
Even if your apartment is in the basement you get a little “garden”. So amazing that this is possible.
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a place in the sun @Amsterdam
The bridge reminds me of a bridge over the Neva I have seen in St. Petersburg. So when I googled if Peter the Great was ever in Amsterdam, I found this. Not sure if there is any link between these two bridges, but I still like the connection.
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imposing bridge @Amsterdam
The three XXX are supposedly standing for the medieval dangers for Amsterdam. Fire, Flood and Black Death. If you have the impressions that it is lopsided, it is.
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the coat of arms of the city on top @Amsterdam
Do I wish sometimes that I could live on a houseboat? All the time!!! I am always dreaming of a houseboat or a tiny house 😉
This is because you do already have so many places where you can leave your stuff ;-) But do you like the idea of just leaving on this tiny boat?
Not just leaving but also living! 😉 Yes, I would like to throw all my stuff away and just live with the essentials.
I have a family of hoarders, that’s probably why 🤔
I guess we both have to work on that. I feel like a hoarder myself sometimes