On
Sunday April 8th (Easter!) Mike and I took the train from Berlin to
Amsterdam. We arrived in Amsterdam
in the evening and only had time to walk around the old town and check out the
Red Light District. I’ve gotta
say, I was very surprised with the Red Light District. Not because of the prostitutes it’s
known for, but how it was such a tourist attraction! The streets were crowded with people of all ages checking
the area out. There were single
people, and couples from their 20’s up to their 80’s walking along the streets. It was definitely a different
experience. The next day Mike and
I got up early to go to the Van Gogh Museum – good thing we did because the
line up was HUGE by the time we left the museum in the late morning. Next we went in many cheese and
souvenir shops. We discovered that
you could go from cheese shop to cheese shop trying all the free samples so
that it was basically lunch! We
walked through the flower markets and basically just around the city all
day. That evening we went to a pub
and got a drink or two.
The
next day we went to Keukenhof Gardens.
The gardens were BEAUTIFUL with millions of tulips and flowers. There was also a windmill in the park
as well. After exploring the whole
park we walked to some nearby farmers fields full of flowers and took
pictures. The fields of flowers
just kept going on and on.
Afterwards we went back to Amsterdam looking for more cheese shops – the
Gouda cheese from Amsterdam is my favourite cheese now. It was very sunny that day making it
very nice to walk along the canal belt.
We checked out the city hall area and walked around the old town at
night.
