Entries from In and Out of the Garden: A Blog tagged with 'Amsterdam'
Top Five Trip Highlights
1. Picasso We saw a lot of great art on this trip and a lot of Picassos. I think my favorite Picasso viewing was at the Rosengart Collection museum in Lucerne. I loved the big open spaces filled with his...
Last Supper in Amsterdam
I know it’s taken me way too long to update my blog since we got back. I can only chalk it up to jet lag and pure laziness. But now I simply must write a little about our last supper...
Last Day in Amsterdam
This is just a quick entry because we are heading out soon for our last dinner. Today was our last full day in Amsterdam, and it seems a little sad to be leaving this great city. We enjoyed the day...
Beyond Amsterdam
We expanded our boundaries with a day trip to the Kröller-Müller Museum and the De Hoge Veluwe National Park. The owner of the apartment suggested that we see this museum and park and what a good piece of advice that...
Cats, Bags and Heineken
We dove in head first to the touristy things that Amsterdam has to offer. We started off the morning with a visit to the fantastic organic market. This was torture because I wanted to buy more than I could possibly...
Another Day in the City
I find Amsterdam to be such an interesting city. It is a big, modern city yet it has small, quaint neighborhoods like the Jordaan that seem so livable. The bicycle is huge part of the culture here. I have...
A Day of Art
We took a tram to the Museum Quarter to get our fill of art and culture. First we visited the Rijksmuseum. The main core of the museum is closed for remodeling, but they have put all the most famous...
In Our Neighborhood
I guess I have really embraced the Slow Travel Philosophy when I realize that we never strayed from our Jordaan neighborhood on our first full day in Amsterdam. When we woke up it was raining, so we decided to...
We’ve Arrived in Amsterdam
We are finally here in Amsterdam! We arrived by train and decided to walk to the apartment. The owner gave us detailed directions and we also had a printout of a Google map with the route indicated. I was so...
Amsterdam Reading List
I like to bring a few novels with me when I travel. It’s the only way I can get through a long flight and I enjoy reading throughout the trip - particularly if the books have something to do with...
Researching Amsterdam
It has been a fairly productive weekend in terms of Amsterdam research. I have a number of interesting and just plain quirky things to add to my list. First, I was very excited to hear from the person we...
Amsterdam It Is
It's official, my husband and I are going to Amsterdam for a week following a business trip to Switzerland. We found a perfect looking apartment in the Jordaan neighborhood. I found the apartment through the VRBO website, but they...
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