Amsterdam: A City That I Will Come Back Again

In this station, I decided to go to Amsterdam and Lisbon for a week with an old schoolmate that we have planned travel for a year, we have difficult time matched during the year, but we finally made it. In this blog, I will focus on the days that I stayed in Amsterdam. 

I picked the early flight again; it was terrible that the transportation to this airport was extremely inconvenient, I have to wake up at 3 am to take the national express to the Luton airport. In addition, I was really unsatisfied about the airline, the check-in deck opened an hour before the flight, and it was a long queue waiting for the check-in desk.  

After I arrived Amsterdam, I still spent quite a lot of time on waiting for Uber to the accommodation. Luckily, I was happy with the apartment that I booked, it made me feel like home, and the landlady was lovely. She prepared a brilliant, excellent breakfast in the next day morning. The apartment also had a cat that calls "Ming." She always observed me from somewhere. 

A corner in Dining Room

Dining Room

Ming

Woke Up in the Morning 

Ming's Childhood Photograph

Tea, Coffee, Snacks and Other were offered by Landlady

Nice Flowers bought from Market

Nice and Healthy Breakfast

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In the afternoon, I went to Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum, they were both excellent, but personally, I preferred Van Gogh Museum more, perhaps I have learned more stories of him since I was in primary school, and I can finally see the printing which was not from the books. 

Rijksmuseum

Van Gogh Museum

Consequently, I went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. After that, I went Amsterdam Tower to wait for the sunset; it was beautiful sunset viewing from the higher point. Finally, before I went back to the apartment, I went to the Red Light District, which was a horrible experience that I ever had.

GRILLED NORWEGIAN SALMON

Sunset View from Amsterdam Tower

HICKORY-SMOKED RIBS

Top of the Amsterdam Tower

In the next day, I visited the Zaandam because of the windmill, but they did have different shop and museum can visit. Because of I flew to Lisbon at night. Thus, I choose some places to go, such as the local museum and the candy factory museum, cheese shop and one of the windmills that made timber. This place should spend a day. Unfortunately, I did not get it this time. 

Candy Factory 

Zaandam

The Windmills that Made Timbers

Walking through the Windmills

Before we went to the Airport, I went to "Body Worlds" which was a lovely exhibition and recommended to go.

In conclusion, while I have not spend a lot of time in Amsterdam this time, I would come back next time. There are not restaurants can be recommended this time, because the time limit, I spent more time on sightseeing rather than eating. Thank you for reading this short blog. Hope you will continue to visit my next blog, which will relate to Lisbon.