Van Gogh Museum
Canals and Bicycles
Cheese Store
Canals and House Boats
Delicious Fries Stand
Red Light District
Red Light District. The prostitutes do not like pictures being taken in the Red Light District, so you have to be sneaky and take quick ones.
This bronze/iron sculpture of a hand caressing a breast is set into the sidewalk stones between the Ouderkerksplein and the square that surrounds the Old Church in the Red Light District. This sculpture was secretly and anomynously left in the late hours of the night. It represents the women of the Red Light District.
The Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum
Outside a coffeeshop with a hash brownie
Canals
Skinny bridge across the Amstel river
Leaning house on the Amstel river. Most of the buildings and houses in Amsterdam are now leaning to the side. This is a result of being there for over 300 years, the structure being made of wood and being built on a dry canal and under sea level which make the ground less stabile
Amstel river and NEMO (the childrens science musuem)
Febo is a Dutch walk-up fast food restaurant chain with vending machines. You can order french fries, hamburgers and beverages from a counter where they'll be made right away. Otherwise you can get food like hot dogs, croquettes, cheese souffles,etc. from the vending machines.
Canal boat ride
Houses built on the canals
Church of St Nicholas and canals
2nd narrowet house in Amsterdam. Amsterdam houses were built narrow because the taxes used to be based on how wide your house was. So, people starting building narrow, long and tall houses
The Westerkerk ("western church") is a Protestant church. Rembrandt van Rijn was buried in the Westerkerk on October 8, 1669
Canals and Street Trolly
Anne Frank House
Canals and Church of St Nicholas
Amsterdam House
Old Church
Most historical houses in Amsterdam are build with a forward leaning front. This was done for two reasons: 1. Pedestrians got the impression that the building was bigger and more impressive making the owners seem more important. 2. These old buildings have stairways that are very narrow and steep due to tje very narrow construction used in Holland at the time. So, it was basically impossible to use the stairs while trying to get furniture or any other big object to the house. So, instead of using the stairs the objects were pulled up through the window. Most of the older houses have a hook placed on top their roofs. This was (and still is) used to hang a wheel and use it with a rope to pull things up. And while pulling the objects up, since the house was leaning forward, the objects didn't hit the side of the building or windows
