First thing today we walked 200 meters to enter Anne Frank Huis (house). We were two of the firsts to enter the museum. It was interesting and a lot of emotions thinking about second word war and how innocent people were treated just because a mad guy had some crazy ideas.

After an hour we exited the museum and walk to Spui were we had breakfast at Cafe Hoppe, a 200 years old cafe.

From Spui we walked to the Rijksmuseum were we and a billion other people spent walking around watching famous painters from Holland, like Vermeer and Rembrandt along with important china from Delft. It took us an hour or two to get through it all.

So how do you spend the time after two museum visits? You, of course, visit a third museum. A walking distance away from Rijksmusem is the van Gogh museum. Here we spent more than an hour watching the development of a crazy painter. It seemed like Vincent van Gogh loved to change how he painted a couple of times every year. Some paintings I loved but a lot was just paint on canvas 🙂

A tram ride away from the Van Gogh museum and we were back at the Dam platz. From there we walked to the Red Light District. We saw a lot of Coffeshops and pot. And suddenly there were… Well, naked people in the doorways. It was like one room apartments where the housewife stood in the doorway chatting with whoever passed by.

The only difference was that these “housewives” had almost no clothes on and not only did they try to talk with whoever passed by they tried to lure them into their one room apartment. It was a shocking contrast to the old typical canal buildings and canals that were just around the corner.

In the evening we researched the Trip Advisor to find a good restaurant. We found Brasserie Valming, a five star establishment at the Trip Advisor. When we got there the group at the table next to us said that they had been traveling in Europe for two weeks now and this was by far the best restaurants.

This seemed good 🙂 But unfortunately the experience was only average. The personnel was friendly and service minded enough. But the food was just so so.