After a restful Sunday, Monday was anything but restful because it was the day for Amsterdam! Amsterdam is a very walkable city, and by the time we had finished the day my pedometer said I had logged 21,398 steps and spent almost 4 hours walking. We were tired, but had a great time!
Here are a few shots from our walk around the city.
Long lines, as usual, at the Anne Frank house.
Our day started with the Noordermarkt – a weekly flea market that was much busier than we’ve seen on other visits. We are guessing that it is because this is summer season and wonderful weather for it.
Part of the Noordermarkt experience is a visit to Café Winkel 43. The guidebooks will tell you that they have the best appeltaart around so the line was out the door. Although we’ve had other great appeltaart, I’m thinking that Winkel’s reputation is well deserved.
We’ve wanted to see one of the canal house museums. The Grachtenhuis museum turned out to be closed on Monday, but not far away were the Van Loon home and Willet-Holthuysen homes so we visited them. It is always interesting to see the inside of homes to see how people really lived. In this case, it shows how much wealth you had to have in order to live in this neighborhood. These are real “Downton Abbey Style” places.
A stop at Stephen and Penelope’s is always fun.
On the way to The Pantry for dinner, we needed a little nourishment to keep our legs going. In keeping with our theme of trying foods which we haven’t had before, we had Rundvleeskroket from the local Febo. Pretty good, but not high on my list for repeating.
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