The Trip: Day 4

On the Monday, our first full day in Amsterdam, we started by visiting the Anne Frank House. It is a small but very inspiring museum. Being in the same rooms as the Frank family (and other people) makes her story very real and powerful. Of course, she was only 1 in 6,000,000. We added a "leaf" in the Anne Frank tree for Julia.

Here are the ladies in the little cafe, at the exit of the House. The picture behind them is part of an exhibition of photographs taken of young girls of the same age as Anne Frank when she died at Bergen-Belsen (15 years old).




During our lunch break, at a cafe on Kalverstraat.


Then we went to the Rijksmuseum, home of many works of some great Dutch artists. Photos are permitted (without flash). Below is one of the paintings that we both very much liked. We looked for a print of it in the gift shop afterwards, but it was missing the texture of the real one, and was just so much better "in person". It is called "Jeremia lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem" (also called "The Prophet Jeremiah Mourning over the Destruction of Jerusalem" in some places), by Rembrandt. There were too many other impressive paintings to list here... even Julia was getting a little tired of it at the end.


Finally, dinner at Bojo, an Indonesian restaurant near Leidseplein (not too far from our hotel). A very nice place to eat, as long as you don't mind the smoke. We were lucky, and it wasn't too crowded or smoky at the time. We had a very pleasant meal.