Livredor and I are in Amsterdam over the weekend. We mostly know what we'll be doing, but will have some time to do touristy stuff we haven't really decided. Where should we go?
:) Got it. (I simplified a little for the peanut gallery, not wanting to explain the details, just to elicit any suggestions likely to be forthcoming :) )
When we went we didn't go to the Heineken Experience, and ended up regretting it. OTOH we went to the Van Gogh museum, which was much better than I expected and sounds much more cultured and respectable when you discuss it with friends back home.
Also, if you want a very good meal and don't mind an eye-watering price, I can recommend a restaurant called Le Ciel Bleu. It's right at the top of one of the tallest hotel blocks, and all the tables are arranged round the edge with great views of the city. I can't vouch for its vegetarian-friendliness I'm afraid.
The Anne Frank house is the big tourist thing, it's like the most visited museum in Europe or something ridiculous. It will also have unimaginable queues on a summer weekend, because since the museum is in Anne Frank's actual house, it's physically tiny. It's a sort of teach the Korean tourists about the Holocaust thing, which does what it does very well, but if you're European you probably know a lot of the material already. I am not particularly keen to go back there, though obviously that shouldn't stop you if you're interested.
The Rijksmuseum I'm totally happy to go back to, though; it's a huge international art museum so definitely not the kind of thing you can say you've "done".
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Date: 2008-05-21 07:46 pm (UTC)Also, if you want a very good meal and don't mind an eye-watering price, I can recommend a restaurant called Le Ciel Bleu. It's right at the top of one of the tallest hotel blocks, and all the tables are arranged round the edge with great views of the city. I can't vouch for its vegetarian-friendliness I'm afraid.
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Date: 2008-05-22 06:04 am (UTC)The Rijksmuseum I'm totally happy to go back to, though; it's a huge international art museum so definitely not the kind of thing you can say you've "done".