Cloth Merchant Council Rembrandt

Our first full day in Amsterdam

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September 16th 2018
September 16, 2018 Amsterdam Today was our first day to explore the city. After a leisurely breakfast, our destination was the Van Gogh Museum. We walked south to the “Museum Quarter”. It was a sunny Sunday and the first thing we encountered was a huge Sunday marketplace with thousands of visitors milling about. We wandered the arts and crafts aisles, then we proceeded to locate the museum ... read more

Europe » Netherlands

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more