We had a lot of fun on arrival watching the bird life in the canal in our back yard. So we filmed a segment of these unusual birds walking on water, and the huge seagulls while we fed them. The little black ones don’t quack, they toot. So funny.
This morning we were a bit late getting up, but headed out about 9.30. We had planned the Van Gogh Museum, the Rembrandt House & the House of Bols. We caught a couple of trams to the Van Gogh Museum and joined the queue. This was 3 stories of paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Israel and various other famous artists. Unfortunately we weren’t impressed with the Van Gogh’s but found a painting by Izreal that we just adored. Not bad, that we found one painting in the whole gallery that we liked. Below is the link if you are interested.
After we left the museum, we walked across the road to the ‘House of Bols’. Bols makes liqueurs, and has done for over 400 years in Amsterdam, we had a tour and tried a cocktail and a couple of shots, I tried the weirdest one of course, the Natural Yoghurt, and it is just so wrong, alcohol flavoured yoghurt – bizarre.
We decided not to go to the Rembrandt House as one cultural event in one day is enough, so made our way back to our rooms and I caught up on my diary & Marty watched some tele.
Crossing the road in this place is even more bizarre than Asia, because they have so many bikes, they have bike ways, so to cross the road you have to cross over the bike path, then the car track, then the tram track, another tram track, a car track & another bike track to get to the other side. AND they are on the wrong side of the road, so it is challenging to say the least.
On our way home this arvy we noticed pink flamingos. We weren’t sure if they were real or not so hopped off the tram & sure enough they were real Pink Flamingos.
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