14.05.15
A late start as we slept so heavily. Once we had mastered the way to buy tram tickets at the best price, we hopped on the No 9 into Museumplein, where we turned the corner to find a very long queue for the Van Gogh museum that I want to visit. Didn't fancy this, so walked to the nine streets shopping area. All very interesting shops; antiques, books, expensive clothes and shoes. Delft tiles at 80 - 150 euros each!
Continued on to Jordaan district which was more our thing. Pretty residential streets off the canals lined with parked bikes, lots of plants decorating front doorways and elm trees shedding their blossom like confetti everywhere. There are funky cafés and shops and the whole area is peaceful.....hmmm, could live here!
From here we went towards Dam Square, walking down a very contrasting road of fast food outlets, coffee shops with the smell of cannabis wafting from them and tacky sex shops. It was packed with people and not pleasant and Dam Square was the same. On the square along with the palace is a Madame Tussaud's and other shops - it was disappointing.
We returned to the quiet of Jordaan, where we had a beer, looked up a restaurant in the book Fran has kindly lent us and without which we would be stuck. The Italian restaurant we were after was full and we couldn't reserve a table for the following nights either: popular. We ended our evening in another
Italian on the same road, food was ok, but probably nowhere near as good as the one we wanted to get into.
The walk back to the hotel helped digest the pasta - just!
A late start as we slept so heavily. Once we had mastered the way to buy tram tickets at the best price, we hopped on the No 9 into Museumplein, where we turned the corner to find a very long queue for the Van Gogh museum that I want to visit. Didn't fancy this, so walked to the nine streets shopping area. All very interesting shops; antiques, books, expensive clothes and shoes. Delft tiles at 80 - 150 euros each!
Continued on to Jordaan district which was more our thing. Pretty residential streets off the canals lined with parked bikes, lots of plants decorating front doorways and elm trees shedding their blossom like confetti everywhere. There are funky cafés and shops and the whole area is peaceful.....hmmm, could live here!
From here we went towards Dam Square, walking down a very contrasting road of fast food outlets, coffee shops with the smell of cannabis wafting from them and tacky sex shops. It was packed with people and not pleasant and Dam Square was the same. On the square along with the palace is a Madame Tussaud's and other shops - it was disappointing.
We returned to the quiet of Jordaan, where we had a beer, looked up a restaurant in the book Fran has kindly lent us and without which we would be stuck. The Italian restaurant we were after was full and we couldn't reserve a table for the following nights either: popular. We ended our evening in another
Italian on the same road, food was ok, but probably nowhere near as good as the one we wanted to get into.
The walk back to the hotel helped digest the pasta - just!
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