During our stay in Amsterdam, we walked around the city as much as we could. Here are a few pictures from those walks. We saw the Stedelijk Museum, Het Rembrandt Museum, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Nieuwendijk, took a walk to the Amstel, through the Vondelpark and then saw Zevenlandenhuizen (Houses of Seven Countries) and returned to Centraal Station to catch the tram back […]
Amsterdam
Staying in Amsterdam East
Well, here’s some exciting news: We’re on our way to Ireland to live there for a bit! My husband, will be starting a new job there. En route we decided to stop at a Schengen country because our visas for that area are still valid. It was either Paris or Amsterdam (it felt like we didn’t have […]
Het Scheepvaartmuseum
I wasn’t that excited to go to this museum, but I actually loved it. It was a freezing cold, rainy day in Amsterdam and the museum had just the right amount of variety to keep me interested. Housed in a former naval storehouse, the museum covers many different aspects of maritime history, from paintings to model ships, […]