We arrived in Amsterdam around 7 am and guests were allowed to disembark by 7:15 am. We left the ship shortly after 8:30 with plans to meet our friend T at 9 am. After a couple detours getting there we met outside the train station at 9:30 am.
T guided us down streets to discover some beautiful hidden gems. This included the Beginjhof - where pious Catholic single women who performed good deeds but did not want to live in a convent and did not take vows.
We made our way to the Vincent Van Gogh
Art museum. J went to discover the nearby gardens, T had an appointment and JG, P and I went to visit the museum. Clearly it was necessary to prebook our time slots for the museum because the family in front of us got turned away being told they were sold out until the end of the month. We times our walk to arrive at 11:15 am and had 30 minutes to enter but could stay as long as we wanted inside the museum. We stayed our intended 1 hour 45 minutes and appreciated the highlights tour offered with the audio guide to meet that time frame. What a sad story of a brilliant artist.
We grabbed a sandwich in the park and met up with J and T at 1 pm. T had arranged a canal boat tour at 1:30 starting from nearby so we hopped aboard and took the outdoor seats at the back of the boat!
Typical buildings we saw on the 75 minute boat ride!
One of many canals in Amsterdam with bikes!!
Sunflowers painted by Vincent Van Gogh museum!
We saw the Norwegian Prima while in our canal boat tour!
Amsterdam Central Station with our personal tour guide T!
We thoroughly enjoyed our day in Amsterdam. And I won’t ever again load pictures before I write text!! Sorry for the disjointed report!
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