Noord-Holland Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Canals of Amsterdam Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Church of Our Lady
Beautiful Catholic church built in gothic architectural style. The tranquility in such a busy city, the beauty of the building and the images, the charisma of the churchgoers indeed a very beautiful church and even more inside. I really liked the columns, the vault, the altar and the windows.
Good spirituality Constructive contribution to your inner development. This is possible here through the sacraments of communion and confession. There is also regular Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, also known as Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Canals of Amsterdam
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There are more than 160 canals in Amsterdam stretching over 100 kilometers (that’s around 60 miles). I Love Amsterdam! Lovely time walking around the canals. The typical Amsterdam canal houses that are so pretty! Distinctive, worth a city walk, to experience the beauty of the canal.So many great views from so many streets.
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sunset boat cruise in Amsterdam canals
This is a must do if you are in the city, the streets are too crowded with tourists and noisy. You want to getaway from the noise of the city but still appreciate the beauty of its canals and views from the water. It’s a totally different experience compared to walking around. 🛥
It’s not cheap but really worth your time and money. I will do it again if I’m back in Amsterdam. I will go for a champagne and cured meats with cheese. That will be perfect 👍🏻
For those who afraid of seasickness, fred not, this has no current no waves, just smooth magic carpet ride, smoother than limousine on the road. Therfore you can enjoy even a hot tea or coffee ☕️ on the boat.
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Walking during fall in Amsterdam
Getting There - Amsterdam - Netherlands 🇳🇱
Attractions - Van Gough Museum, Red lights, Coffee shops, and much more!
Hotels - Marriott
Food & Restaurants - Fish and chips.. see my picture 😄
Shopping - coffee shops and locals store
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Zaanse Schans Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Known as the "safest city in Europe" | Amsterdam travel guide
🌈Amsterdam - the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the North Holland province in the western part of the country.
🙋♀️The population is about 860,000, and the per capita GDP in the Netherlands is around $53,000, ranking among the top in Europe. It is a prosperous and wealthy city.
🚏Amsterdam is famous for its free style, inclusive atmosphere, beautiful canals, and unique architectural style.
👉There are also many famous museums and art galleries here, such as 🔺Van Gogh Museum, 🔺National Museum, 🔺Mauritshuis Museum, and so on.
🍱Amsterdam's 🔺 food culture is also very unique, with a variety of delicious food and snacks, including traditional Dutch platter breakfast, Dutch cheese, and Dutch fried meat rolls.
☕Here you can also enjoy a rich coffee culture and taste a variety of coffee and desserts.
🚲Amsterdam is also a city where environmental protection and bicycle culture are very popular.
👍Here, there are numerous bike lanes and rental stations, making cycling one of the main modes of transportation for Amsterdam residents!
📸✅"Windmill Town - Sheep Horn Village"
🔜🚏Zaanse Schans is a windmill village near Amsterdam, Netherlands, about 15 kilometers away from the city center of Amsterdam!
🔜🌟This small town is famous for its traditional 🔺Dutch windmills, 🔺wooden shoes, 🔺cheese, and 🔺chocolate handicrafts!
🔜📍Here you can learn about the traditional craftsmanship of Dutch handicrafts, and you can also climb to the top of the windmill to overlook the beautiful scenery and surrounding villages.
🔥Here are 22 traditional Dutch windmills, some of which have been converted into museums, allowing visitors to observe and learn about the history and workings of windmills up close.
The Dutch countryside
The windmill town - Zaanse Schans is a village with authentic wooden houses, windmills, a wooden shoe workshop, cheese factory, and more crafts that give an impression of life in the Netherlands. The windmills of Zaanse Schans is a must-do tourist attraction in the Netherlands and can easily be visited on a day trip from Amsterdam. You cannot say you have visited Amsterdam without visiting this most famous rural town In Netherlands.
Windmills are the symbol of this land and it is still inhabited for many works. #awesomepic #couplestrip #mytripvlog #summervacation #2023travelwish #europe #Netherlands #amsterdam #Ruralexplorer
Zaanse Schans–Windmill Village near Amsterdam
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The Zaanse Schans is an open-air museum that’s fun for all ages. Open year round, Zaans Schans is a free outdoor park with a collection of historical windmills. While the Zaanse Schans can be visited any time of year, the majority of the windmills are open to visitors from April to October. Besides windmills, you can also visit the souvenir shops, see clogs being made or visit a cheese farm near the Zaanse Schans.
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🇳🇱 Truly a real Dutch experience 🚴🏼♂️
Zaanse Schans offers the picturesque countryside views and most beautiful windmill landscape, It's a unique part of the Netherlands. We stayed at b&b homestay nearby, as it’s only about a 10 minutes cycling to the village. The village full of wooden houses, windmills, barns and workshops, and the water sight are definitely worth visiting.
The windmills are the main attractions here, there are about 10 windmills, half of which are fully functional and can be visited (for an entrance fee). Several historic buildings were added in recent years. The clog workshop is part of museum, part demonstration, part souvenir store, like many of the shops, clogs were made by hand by a craftsman.
I loved the chance to soak up the history, explore the windmills, and learn about the Zaan district. It is one of the most popular destination in the Netherlands and located quite near to the city, very convenient assess with public transport.
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Rijksmuseum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Lovely Garden at Rijksmuseum
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A peaceful oasis as compared to the Rijksmuseum, the Rijksmuseum Garden is located at the back of the museum and has much lesser people exploring the garden. Take a stroll around the lovely garden and take a rest at one of the many seats available around the garden. There is also a beautiful water fountain in the Rijksmuseum Garden. I will recommend you to take a break in the garden to relax after the grueling museum tour with the overwhelming tourist crowd.
Historical Amsterdam museum
Museum-hopping in Amsterdam is really convenient as many of their famous museums are located within the vicinity of one another in the borough of Amsterdam South. This one we visited was the Rijksmuseum, showcasing mainly the artworks and heritage symbols of the Dutch.
The entry tickets are fairly pricey, costing around 24 euros per adult, but the artefacts on display are very aesthetic and meaningful. There was even a huge notebook for the public to pen their hopes and well-wishes based on the theme of one of the art pieces!
My overall rating of the experience: 4 out of 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#amsterdam #tripmoments #tripblazers
Known as the "safest city in Europe" | Amsterdam travel guide
🌈Amsterdam - the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the North Holland province in the western part of the country.
🙋♀️The population is about 860,000, and the per capita GDP in the Netherlands is around $53,000, ranking among the top in Europe. It is a prosperous and wealthy city.
🚏Amsterdam is famous for its free style, inclusive atmosphere, beautiful canals, and unique architectural style.
👉There are also many famous museums and art galleries here, such as 🔺Van Gogh Museum, 🔺National Museum, 🔺Mauritshuis Museum, and so on.
🍱Amsterdam's 🔺 food culture is also very unique, with a variety of delicious food and snacks, including traditional Dutch platter breakfast, Dutch cheese, and Dutch fried meat rolls.
☕Here you can also enjoy a rich coffee culture and taste a variety of coffee and desserts.
🚲Amsterdam is also a city where environmental protection and bicycle culture are very popular.
👍Here, there are numerous bike lanes and rental stations, making cycling one of the main modes of transportation for Amsterdam residents!
📸✅"Windmill Town - Sheep Horn Village"
🔜🚏Zaanse Schans is a windmill village near Amsterdam, Netherlands, about 15 kilometers away from the city center of Amsterdam!
🔜🌟This small town is famous for its traditional 🔺Dutch windmills, 🔺wooden shoes, 🔺cheese, and 🔺chocolate handicrafts!
🔜📍Here you can learn about the traditional craftsmanship of Dutch handicrafts, and you can also climb to the top of the windmill to overlook the beautiful scenery and surrounding villages.
🔥Here are 22 traditional Dutch windmills, some of which have been converted into museums, allowing visitors to observe and learn about the history and workings of windmills up close.
Rijkmuseum Amsterdam
One of the top museums here in Amsterdam and definitely a must-seen! Its very popular so better book the ticket in advance online. It's quite huge, if you wanna see everything you will have to take a whole day. The museun offers free apps which you can download easily on your phone, so you don't need to rent extra audio guide. Some of the important master pieces are on a tour exhibition so we didn't get to see then, which it's a pity. Make sure you visit the museum gift shop! So many interesting items!
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Van Gogh Museum Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Legendary Museum
Loved my experience here. Note that you must book online and ahead of time. And be prepared for crowds.
Excellent tribute to Van Gogh's life. All his famous works are here, including sunflowers and self portraits.
The Versailles exhibition is a nice extra. Audio guide is truly excellent.
Lockers provided, excellent gift shop, cafes & restaurants, plenty of seats.
This is an absolute must visit
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Known as the "safest city in Europe" | Amsterdam travel guide
🌈Amsterdam - the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the North Holland province in the western part of the country.
🙋♀️The population is about 860,000, and the per capita GDP in the Netherlands is around $53,000, ranking among the top in Europe. It is a prosperous and wealthy city.
🚏Amsterdam is famous for its free style, inclusive atmosphere, beautiful canals, and unique architectural style.
👉There are also many famous museums and art galleries here, such as 🔺Van Gogh Museum, 🔺National Museum, 🔺Mauritshuis Museum, and so on.
🍱Amsterdam's 🔺 food culture is also very unique, with a variety of delicious food and snacks, including traditional Dutch platter breakfast, Dutch cheese, and Dutch fried meat rolls.
☕Here you can also enjoy a rich coffee culture and taste a variety of coffee and desserts.
🚲Amsterdam is also a city where environmental protection and bicycle culture are very popular.
👍Here, there are numerous bike lanes and rental stations, making cycling one of the main modes of transportation for Amsterdam residents!
📸✅"Windmill Town - Sheep Horn Village"
🔜🚏Zaanse Schans is a windmill village near Amsterdam, Netherlands, about 15 kilometers away from the city center of Amsterdam!
🔜🌟This small town is famous for its traditional 🔺Dutch windmills, 🔺wooden shoes, 🔺cheese, and 🔺chocolate handicrafts!
🔜📍Here you can learn about the traditional craftsmanship of Dutch handicrafts, and you can also climb to the top of the windmill to overlook the beautiful scenery and surrounding villages.
🔥Here are 22 traditional Dutch windmills, some of which have been converted into museums, allowing visitors to observe and learn about the history and workings of windmills up close.
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Amazing museum and many many Van Gogh paintings for you to admire. There is quite a bit people at times, and you should definitely have a reservation. It’s near the other museum so you can visit both in a day. There are also limited time displays on the other side of the museum. Tickets need to be booked online, usually not available on the same day, so better to plan 2-3 days in advance. Could find very interesting art pieces, Van Gogh's life and his painting skills exhibited in the most authentic way possible.
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Van Gogh Museum
Van Gogh Museum
Price: 18 Euro
Location: Museumplein 6 1017 DJ Amsterdam
opening hours:
Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum has the world’s largest collections of the work of Vincent Van Gogh. It has more than 200 paintings and 500 drawings.
Van Gogh Masterpiece:
1. The Potato Eaters
2. Sunflowers
3. Almond Blossom
4. The Yellow House
5. The Bedroom
6. The Sower
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Heineken Experience Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
The Heineken Experience In Amsterdam
If you are in Amsterdam, one of the tours that I would highly recommend would be the Heineken experience at the Heineken brewery. It is a fun and interesting place to be at, as you learn more of the history of Heineken, it's beer making process and also it's brewery. The whole tour was very detailed yet it is not boring. You can enter the brewery and a guide is there to explain about the beer ingredients and what makes Heineken so special. It takes about 90 minutes for the entire tour and at the end of the tour, there's a complimentary glass of beer that you drink at the brewery. The Heineken experience is a pretty unique experience and your cameras will be busy snapping away as there's so many photo opportunites. Love the Heineken experience!
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Heineken Experience
Getting There - easy access by tram and public transport
Attractions - Heineken Experience, get to understand all the history and story related to Heineken
A guide will be assigned to bring everyone walk around, talk about the story of Heineken, and how to brew your own beer. And free drinks too!
Besides, you get to see some related story about football and baseball, which sponsored by Heineken.
Have a beer at the Heineken Experience
The Heineken Experience in Amsterdam is the place to come if you want to learn all about how this famous beer evolved.
The experience takes place in an old Heineken brewery and you can learn about the Heineken family as well as see the actual brewing process that is used to make the beer.
This starts from the kind of water used all the way through to the bottling process and you can also see classic examples of the iconic Heineken logo and see how it has changed over the years.
As if that wasn’t enough, you can of course also sample this famous brew and end the trip with a tasting session.
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Heineken Experience
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This was probably the best experience here on our trip in Amsterdam. It's been on our list for over five years and we finally got to experience it in March. We went on a weekday and there wasn't any line is we had tickets in advance. We got there in a timely manner, and everybody was professional. From the security guard, to the person taking your jacket, to everyone that was giving the tour. It was super informational and gave us a lot of background history on the family as well as a family business. We got an inside look of how the beer was made and how it's still being produced. It was an interactive museum with a lot more offering than what we were expecting. This is one of the highlights of my trip. We spent approximately 90 minutes taking the tour and at the end had two beers with the complementary with the general admission ticket. I would highly recommend this to anyone visiting Amsterdam. It's the perfect mix between a history, an interactive museum, a Brewery and a tasting room! Worth every penny
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