It's Time for a Beerseum
July 27th, 2015
Waiting out the rain at the Rijksmusuem.
Our first windmill was also a brewery! Life is good!
When we arrived in Amsterdam, it was raining and chilly. We tried to get around as best we could in the weather, as it would alternate between clear skies and complete downpours. Of course, this does not seem to deter the locals from riding their bikes everywhere. We took some time to enjoy wandering the canals and getting lost around the city. We saw the Rijksmusuem but decided that after almost a month of museums, we were ready to just take in the city without walking around a museum. When the rain wouldn’t let up we decided to head to the “Heineken Experience.” It was definitely an experience, but we aren’t sure if we enjoyed it as much as others seemed to.
We found out that there is a nearby brewery inside a windmill, so of course that is where we headed next for lunch. We enjoyed a couple beers and cheese and sausage plate, but the sausage was different than anything we have ever had. It was smoked but raw on the inside, which ended up being like eating steak tartar in sausage form! We headed to the red light district at night to check out part of what makes Amsterdam so popular. It was an interesting sight, as were the urinals lining the canals!
Those houses look beautiful, BUT they have a lot of steep stairs.
