Amsterdam | Traveling Humans

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/ DESTINATION #15 /

Amsterdam

THE NETHERLANDS

/ JULY 23–26, 2017 /

We'd both been to Amsterdam before, but I felt like I hadn't seen enough of it. We spent a little more than usual on our Airbnb and got to fully enjoy this beautiful city.

Our basement apartment Airbnb

Inside

This was by far our nicest Airbnb — look at that kitchen!

Out for dinner

The canal near the apartment

Walking around town

I thought these signs were pretty funny (no drinking, but the disembodied hand...?)

Brandon found his place. We didn't go in.

The nearby grocery store had all sorts of goodies. We bought some of this soup, along with TWO types of Gouda.

Soup for lunch

Our walking tour guide telling us about his stand up comedy show that night

Breakfast one morning in the Airbnb

Canals at night

We walked to the Rijksmuseum on the other side of town to see this Rembrandt and a lot of Vermeer.

17th century Dutch whaling hats on display at the Rijksmuseum

We decided to take an evening boat tour of the canals. Our guide happened to be one of the comedians we'd seen the previous night.

It was chilly despite the time of year, so I bought that brown cashmere turtleneck for $20 at a secondhand shop on the way back from the Rijksmuseum.

Our Airbnb was right by a famous Dutch apple pie place, Winkel. It's really more like cake with lots of apples in it — SO delicious. It's my goal to recreate it someday.

The bus to Hamburg was almost empty, so we had the whole back row to ourselves.

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