Rembrandt's famous painting - The Night Watch,
The glass barrier of this big dollhouse was so crystal clear that a Korean lady bashed her head into the glass when she was trying to get a closer look at it lol. And everyone else around her (including me) was trying so hard not to laugh but she herself was laughing so I couldn't help it kekeke.
The Rijksmuseum is such a majestic building.
En route to the Van Gogh Museum.
We weren't allowed to take any photos in the Van Gogh Museum but I can tell you that it was a very interesting visit. Firstly though, remember to book your tickets in advance if you want to visit it. We didn't book our tickets in advance because we wanted to keep our trip fairly flexible just in case anything goes wrong, or it rains or something, we wouldn't be constrained by time.
But because we didn't do so, we had to queue for more than an hour in the cold before getting to the entrance to buy our tickets.
It was worth it though because I thoroughly enjoyed this museum. It's like entering Vincent van Gogh's world; as you walk through the museum, it tells you about van Gogh's life in a systematic order through his paintings and drawings. It's basically like reading through his biography.
His most famous paintings of sunflowers were probably what most people were wanting to witness but he had so many more amazing paintings exhibited in the museum.
When you get to the end, you really will get a bit emotional seeing how he ended his life at age 37.
It wasn't a huge museum but we spent quite a lot of time in there because we read through everything and took our time to appreciate all the works of Vincent van Gogh.
After those museum-visits, we took a tram a flower market around the Singel Canal.
As you can see, it was a beautiful day. We didn't have much planned for the rest of the day so we just strolled around the city, along the canals and enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere of Amsterdam.
All the crooked houses
I was really looking forward to visit this Begijnhof (it's like a historic centre) but we got there just when it closed :(
Joon Tian managed to quickly snap a photo of how it looks inside before that lady walking towards us told us to get out lol she said it in a nice way.
We were so hungry but we couldn't decide on what and where to go for dinner so we decided to head back to our accommodation. On the ground floor of the hotel, there's a small restaurant/bar which sold reasonably priced food, so we decided to just go there. I don't remember the food being amazing but probably because I was starving at that moment, it was quite tasty. We both ordered a crab cake burger, which from this photo, doesn't look the best lol.
But overall, I truly enjoyed myself over the three days we spent in Amsterdam. The weather was cold but not unbearable (better than it being scorching hot). I don't remember having much interaction with the local people but the people at our hotel were very friendly. And the whole atmosphere of the city was amazing. Of course, it's more laid back than London is and the public transport was all very convenient and easy to understand. We didn't have any problems getting around the city; plus, it's not too big of a city to get around by foot too. I'd definitely love to go back to the Netherlands and visit some other cities as well~
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