Amsterdam is crowded. The city is small, the streets are small, and there are a lot of people.
The museums are crowded. If you want to go to, for example, the Ann Frank house, and you don't have a timed ticket, then you had better be prepared to wait in line for two to three hours. Of course, if you plan just a little, you will be able to get a timed entry for €1, and that will solve that problem.
I didn't really want to go to the Ann Frank house, so that was no problem for us. (Doreen has already seen it) but we did want to see the Van Gogh and the Rijksmuseum. So we had to plan ahead.
It was easy to get an entry to the Van Gogh when we wanted, and they use something called "Passwallet" that loads the ticket directly onto your phone. Magic! It worked great. It is really something to see a line at least two hours long at the museum, and then just walk on by. Plan for this, if you come here.
We bought a Museumcard, which lets you into something like 45 museums (including all the ones you want to go to) and also generally lets you cut the line. It is good for one whole year! So when you come here (Mark and Becky) let me know and you can borrow it.
How about some photos?
These are crowds trying to see The Nightwatch. That is the most famous painting (by Rembrandt) in the museum.
and this:
is the crowd around The Milkmaid by Vermeer.
As you can imagine, there are a lot of paintings of boats. And some models, too. This model is from the 17th century.
(You can see Doreen on the other side of it)
There are plenty of antique shops near the museums. We didn't buy anything.
This has been a good trip.
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