{"id":17,"date":"2013-06-05T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/?p=17"},"modified":"2013-06-06T08:36:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:36:14","slug":"the-rijksmuseum-the-kroller-muller-museum-9-streets-boy-are-my-feet-sore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/obe\/2013\/06\/05\/the-rijksmuseum-the-kroller-muller-museum-9-streets-boy-are-my-feet-sore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rijksmuseum, the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, 9 Streets – Boy are my feet sore!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a busy 2 days here! Yesterday I met with a friend, Sico, He presented me with a gift, an Amsterdam Museum card<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dam Square Panorama<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0It is wonderful it gives you “free” admission to most of Amsterdam’s and the Netherlands museums. The card is about 45 \u20ac and will pay for itself after you have been to 3 museums.<\/span><\/p>\n

With nothing really planned and there being so much to do, we decided to wander through De 9 Straatjes (The 9 Streets. A small area of amsterdam consisting of…9 streets with small trendy \u00a0(read expensive) shops. we wandered through most of the 9 streets till we were thirsty and hungry. An Albert Heijn lunch was in order, some cheese, bread and something to drink; water if you need to know. A short walk to Vondelpark to eat. I should mention that the weather was wonderful, around 20c and not a cloud in the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having had lunch and digesting, we discussed what to do, the Rijksmuseum was nearby and thought it would be a good thing to see. It wasn\u2019t. We had both been walking quite a bit already and the museum, newly reopened, was huge! I lasted another hour and a bit, Sico left before me. I have a museum card, so I will go back \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I went to the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, the second largest collection of Van Gogh paintings and drawings in the world. I just looked at the paintings!! What else could I have done, there were security guards everywhere \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

A true peasant painting ought to \u2018smell of bacon, smoke, potato steam\u2019 ~Vincent Van Gogh<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On the way out of the museum, after I replaced the bicycle (free to use in the park) Did I mention that the museum is in the middle of a national park, it is, and there are free bicycles to use. I was amazed at the bird songs.<\/span><\/p>\n