Started our next day in Amsterdam pretty early! Look how cool this is - the road had to be lifted for boats to pass through!
First stop of the day: Albert Cuyp Market
We took a nice stroll and the street stalls had everything we wanted - fruit juice, cheese, stroopwaffles, local delights like the herring fish and apparels. I even bought a pair of Nike here! Bernard was going absolutely nuts about the endless choices of food but guess who had the worst stomach ache of his life that night??? HAHAHA funniest experience in the world, i'm guessing it's the herring fish :>
Next stop: House of Bols!
We couldn't cover all the museums in the Museumplein area so instead of visiting the cliche Van Gogh or Rijksmuseum, we decided to visit the House of Bols which is a cocktail museum. I figured Bernard will like it since he's been bar-tending over the past 5 months.
This museum is self-guided and it was really interesting. A good blend of education, history and entertainment. Bols created Genever which is the grandfather of Gin so you can imagine just how much history is there that goes behind this brand!
Our entry fee included a cocktail and two shots of our choice. It was really worth it!! My choice of drink was the Vanilla Berry Crush!
THE ALCOHOL WAS SO STRONG. Halfway through the drink I was like.. there's still two shots each for the both of us, I don't think we can make it through the rest of the day if we drink up everything LOL! We took the shots and left tipsy.
Tipsy enough to take weird, stupid photos like these. Look how red Bernard's face is.
Ice cream pit stop ^_^ (we did this too often in Europe!!) And then we spent the next half of the day just walking aimlessly while exploring Jordaan! The Jordaan area is a heavy residential area and it was like a maze of restaurants, cafes and stores. It's so peaceful and seemed less touristy!
Pictures alone can't describe the beauty of this city and it definitely deserves more than just two days in coffee shops, not that we stepped into one. Brick buildings, open skyline and windy canal streets.. Everybody there is eclectic (just like Amsterdam haha) - art enthusiast, historians, architects. Basically whatever you're looking for, whether it's a green space, museums, a crazy nightlife, hipsters and shopping?? It can all be found in Amsterdam! It's honestly one of favourite places in Europe now apart from Paris :-)
kk I sound like i'm part of their tourism board or smth, moving on..... DINNER!
Have you ever craved two things at the same time?? I was having mad cravings for pasta (obviously to make up for the worst meal I had the day before) and burger so we bought both. Tuna pasta from a homely italian take-away and truffle egg burger from the popular Burger Meester. Both were so good, could't decide which was better. Ok probably the crazy burger #causetruffle.
every cafe in the UK and Europe looks like this, i'm jealous.
Last stop: Anne Frank House
I thought arriving at 7 pm would mean lesser people in the queue but LOOK JUST HOW LONG THE QUEUE IS OMG T_T and then worst of all, it started to pour. Thankfully we had our umbrellas and I thought maybe some ppl would start leaving and the queue will get short but NO! Well well, it was worth the wait nonetheless! This museum was really touching, I was so engrossed I didn't even take pictures. Probably one of the highlights of Amsterdam : )
Next post - Prague!
