Prostitute Museum

We went to the prostitute museum to learn about this trade, and how it works on the legal side of things.  The museum was fairly neutral in presentation with almost a slight negative undertone, which made it somewhat more interesting than expected.  It was not too long and gives you a quick overview.  Ultimately, it seems that being legal did not make the trade any more glamorous nor did it remove all of the hardships of being in such a trade, but there were some small positives.

Mark Raven

The first time we were in Amsterdam, earlier in this trip, it was late at night on our way home and Megan saw a shop with shirts that she liked.  She wanted to go back to it the following morning before we head to Lisse and buy a shirt or something.  It was semi-close to our Airbnb, however, the following morning, we were unable to find it! We did not have much time to look around and when we got on the trolley, we ended up seeing it along the route.  We knew we'd be back in town and hoped we would find it along our journeys the second time around... 

Well, on our way to Moco Museum (Banksy Museum), I spotted a shop that I thought the shirts were cool.  When I pointed it out, Megan said they were exactly the ones she liked in that window that night! However, it was a different shop! 

We went in and we all bought shirts or sweatshirts.  The best part is the artist was there working the shop by chance because he had someone call out sick.  We talked to him for quite a while.

When in Amsterdam, Do as the Amsetrdamishians Do on a House Boat

Anne Frank House Again

Today, while on the tram on our way to the Museum of Prostitution, I was looking at the blog  and found out that my original Anne Frank Huis post  was GONE! Here is the Anne Frank House post for you if you haven't seen it yet.

On April 19th, 2018, we went to Anne Frank Huis. It was an interesting experience. One of my favorite and highlight of the trip. While going through Anne Frank House, we saw only what was left on the walls. There was no furniture in the two floors they stayed in while hiding from the Nazis but there was a picture on the wall of each room of what it looked like back when the Frank's and van Pels' families were there. It was very cool the see how small of a space it is especially with eight (8) all living there. 

Since we couldn't take pictures of what was left so here is the building (at the time when the Franks and van Pels' families were there it was a office building) of the Anne Frank Huis.

While we were there, the diary of Anne Frank was an exact copy. 

Pancakes

Yum! Pancake bakery. The savory pancakes we're so good we ate them before we could take a picture of them, but the sweet ones we remembered to take a picture first. 😉

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Beer, Beer, Beer

Being that 3 out of 4 of us live in Vermont, how in the world did we go this long without a single beer post!?  Well, needless to say, we have been tasting beers...

The one above was made by monks or something

We also visited a beer hall called A La Mort Subite, which means "the sudden death".  So far we survived tasting all of these Belgium and German style beers...

They had the best mustard, cheese, and meat platter!

Banksy at Moco Museum

The most amusing part of Banksy's exhibit is that his art was originally done on buildings thus they had to remove a chunk of the building in order to have it in this museum on display. 

Not only did we get to see Banksy's art, but we got to participate in some art.

#art is Obsolete

"Where My Posts At!?"

Mysteriously, 2 posts have disappeared from the blog =[

Tess is hard at work recreating these missing posts.

We promise they will be even better than the originals.

Back to Amsterdam we go

On our drive back up to Amsterdam we stopped to see the windmills

Windmills!

So many windmills! People used to live in then and some still do. There was a family of 13 living in one!

Here is one in action! Don't get hit!

They still love there windmills, we saw many new and old while traveling back from Brussels.