{"id":12699,"date":"2022-08-27T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12699"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:07:43","slug":"travelogue-amsterdam-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anniee.net\/?page_id=12699","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Amsterdam, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 2022<\/strong>
\nWhere We Stayed: Kimpton DeWitt Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n

After our day trip to Zaanse Schans, we had one more full day left in Amsterdam.\u00a0 Museum day!\u00a0 We started the day with the Anne Frank House.\u00a0 A completely overwhelming, sad, aching experience.\u00a0 It was beautifully done and I’d highly recommend.\u00a0 From there we roamed around, found a place to have lunch, and did a lot of people watching.\u00a0 Our next museum was MOCO – which featured modern art including pieces by Banksy and some trippy digital interactive art.<\/p>\n

We had about 2 hours to kill so we decided, on a whim, to go to the House of Bols Cocktail & Genever Experience.\u00a0 It was surprisingly fun and oooooh so colorful!\u00a0 And we got two cocktails out of it!<\/p>\n

Our last museum stop of the day was the Vincent Van Gogh Museum.\u00a0 It was impressive.\u00a0 You really got a sense for how prolific he was with his painting — and sadly, how mentally ill he was.\u00a0 I’m not one for art museums but I really enjoyed this one.<\/p>\n

We walked over 20K steps seeing all that Amsterdam had to offer, then inhaled dinner at the Turkish restaurant across the street from our hotel. It was a whirlwind three days in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The first real tulips I saw!
\n\"\"<\/a>Didn’t last long… these were fake!
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\"\"<\/a>Rijksmuseum — we skipped this because we ran out of time.
\n\"\"<\/a>When in Rome…
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\"\"<\/a>Waiting to get into MOCO
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\"\"<\/a>Sometimes I just don’t get it, ya know?
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\"\"<\/a>PREACH!
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\"\"<\/a>House of Bols!
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\"\"<\/a>This whole place was a rainbow.
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\"\"<\/a>Flowers and landscapes are nice, but of course my favorite piece is the smoking skeleton.
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\"\"<\/a>Dinner!
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\"\"<\/a>The ceiling of a corridor between streets.
\n\"\"<\/a>Red lights… with the police station right in the background. I love that it’s legal there so the girls and guys can stay safe(r)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 2022 Where We Stayed: Kimpton DeWitt Amsterdam After our day trip to Zaanse Schans, we had one more full day left in Amsterdam.\u00a0 Museum day!\u00a0 We started the day with the Anne Frank House.\u00a0 A completely overwhelming, sad, aching…<\/p>\n

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