Amsterdam

Flights: https://www.google.com/travel/flights/s/cXEhXVk5Ntgt8L7w5

Monday 20

Arrive in Amsterdam at 8:25am

Take day off work. Try to stay up until bedtime.

Tuesday 21

Wednesday 22

Thursday 23

Friday 24

Saturday 25

Sunday 26

12:35pm flight to Calgary

1:25pm arrive in Calgary

Try to stay up until bedtime

Things to Do

  1. Don't wear masks!
  2. Arrive at Schibel
    1. Go down down downstairs
    2. Get a train ticket in the yellow box at airport
    3. Train to central station
    4. Get a 7 day transit pass at a GREEN machine?
    5. Take the number 12 tram to Ledseplein TAP ON TAP OFF
  3. Rijksmuseum
  4. If we want a bike, rent a Black Bikes (it's not obviously tourist)
    1. Biking etiquette: don't go slow, don't ride abreast
    2. iamexpat.nl
  5. Vondelpark
  6. Blauwe Theehuis (Brouwerij 't IJ)
  7. Zaanse Schans (windmills). Excursion starts near central station.
    1. Can also extend trip to Volendam, which is a super cute village
      1. Includes cheese tour
    2. Can extend trip to Marken
      1. Another cute village
      2. Shoe factory
  8. Jewish Museum
  9. ARTIS zoo
    1. historical zoo
    2. lemurs
  10. Verzets resistance museum
    1. Across from zoo
  11. Hortus boranicus Amsterdam
    1. botanical garden
  12. National Maritime Museum
  13. Coffee
    1. Don't call it a coffee shop, call it a café!
    2. Back to Black
      1. Closest to hotel
    3. Bocca Coffee
    4. Café Américain
  14. Whiskey
    1. Whiskey Café L & B
  15. Beer
    1. Mikkeller at Morebeer
      1. Chill, close to hotel
    2. Cafe Gollem Amstelstraat
      1. Brewery Oedipus
      2. kwaak (refers to beer, but comes in interesting glass)
    3. Old Bell
      1. British pub
      2. Rembrandtsplein