Kilometres walked : Monday – 2.7, Tuesday – 4.7, Wednesday – 13, Thursday – 11

Thursday 13th April, 2023.

Hello Amsterdam. The city of cheese 🧀 and bicycle’s 🚲. Oh and sex shops, marjiuana, quirky architecture, canals, houseboats and tulips🌷 ( and a million other tourists😆 ) After a few relaxing days with the family in England we have started the next leg of our adventure.

Arriving in Amsterdam was like meeting up with an old friend. Four years ago we packed in a crazy five nights here and now we are doing it all over again. Staying right in the centre of town in a cute little studio with typical narrow steep Amsterdam stairs, we were delighted to see our view out across the canal below. Settling in with a nice 🍷 we watched day turn to night.

Managing to score ourselves last minute tickets to The Van Gogh Museum, we raced around crazily this morning to get there for our allotted entry time. Walking in and gazing around, we then of course realised that we had been here last time but neither of us could remember a lot of it😆 This time we slowly took it all in and enjoyed three hours of admiring some of the most amazing artwork. ( along with thousands of other people😳 ) The Sunflowers were definitely my favourite. The intense colours that you see when your standing in front of it take your breath away. I also really loved his dark green undergrowth paintings with all the different shades and chunky textures 💚 He was a very talented man indeed.

From one Museum to the next, we found the Chess Museum a little further down the road which was actually very interesting. Particularly I guess since we both enjoy playing the game. ♟️

Amsterdam architecture, what can I say, it’s amazing, beautiful, quirky, wonky and stylish all at the same time😍