Volendam, Netherlands

It is a good day here in Volendam, I don't have anything to say really. But if you want to read about the city; you can always read here from the last year I visited the place. 

Enjoy the pictures after the jump....

Museumplein Amsterdam

Biking through Vondelpark, on our way for a day at the museum....

Rijksmuseum

the Nightwatch!

and Van Gogh Museum

Deventer

Zaandam

This is another city that I can call home, afterall... it is where my fave aunty has lived almost his whole life...

Heineken Experience Amsterdam

After so many years going back and forth to Amsterdam, I have never done the Heineken Experience! But there is always a first time on everything, yes?

Housed inside Heineken’s historic brewery in the centre of Amsterdam, the interactive museum will take you on an exciting, behind-the-scenes journey through the wild world of one of Europe’s most popular pilsners. It’s now among the city’s most visited attractions, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

Amsterdam canal cruise

This morning we have plan to have the pancake and the infamous mini pancake. I love the fact that they have the glutten free version... so I ordered 50/50 😍😍😍😍😍

Satisfied! 😋😋😋

Zaanse Schans, Windmolen, the Netherlands

I am back in The Netherlands again, and after a couple day in Amsterdam, this place is where I have visited! I know, I know... it might be too commercially done for you guys, but I just love Zaanse Schans! After all the place is in the neighbourhood of Zaandam, near Zaandijk, where my fave aunty has been living in for years and years since she moved to the Netherlands in 1966.

Zaanse Schans  has a collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses, I couldn't help myself not to take overly amount of pictures, but I did!

Volendam, The Netherlands

I would like to call this post as a Throwback Tuesday 😀😀😄😄 as I scroll on my hard drive to found this folder with Holland photos. Mind you, I still have thousand photos to organize 😟😞

Lets throwback to Volendam which is a small town in  North Holland, The Netherlands. It is a small town by the water, open sea and has about 22,000 inhabitants...

Huizen NL (unpublished)

I didn't realize that people are actually counting how many countries they've visited and how many cities they've visited in their lifetime. And some of the travel blogger even kind of pinning and writing them down on their main page/ instagram (I kind of write it down too). So here I am going through my blog page and surprised that I didn't list them. Plus I visited many other countries too, but didn't even post it here on the blog. You probably noticed the "unpublished" series by now, and yes, they are my trips that I haven't posted yet.

So here goes another one, where I stayed a good 4 days at my cousins home, Huizen NL.

Rembrandt House

Remember my post What is inside the bag?

Well, I am going to tell you the story behind the medallion necklace here,

Museum het Rembrandthuis (The Rembrandt House Museum) is actually a  house in Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam,Netherlands, where Rembrandt lived and painted for nearly twenty years. It is now a museum. We visited this world heritage UNESCO approved site, when way back than Rembrandt purchased the house in 1639 and lived there until he went bankrupt in 1656, back than all his belongings were auctioned. Thanks to the detailed inventory and catalogue for the auction, and also some drawings by Rembrandt, the museum has an unusually good idea of the contents, which has allowed the museum to reconstruct the appearance of the rooms with similar period items.

My husband and I both love Rembrandt, me especially! The dramatic light he use in his painting is just magical, capturing the exact moment and tell so many secrets behind the making ~or at least that's what I feel about his paintings/works. When we visit a museum, we always ended up in the museum shops because we love collecting books. On this particular trip, I purchase the collector coins. And when I am back in Bali, I turned the coin into a medallion pendant. Love it!

A bittersweet wedding party

A friend of mine is marrying a club owner; the Bittersweet club in Amsterdam, so I rush from Paris to get to Amsterdam as I don't want to miss her wedding reception...

Zaanse Schans

Zaanse Schans is a small village on the banks of the Zaan river, complete with tidy green houses, real working windmills, and small topical museums such as the Clock Museum and the first Albert Heijn store.

In the 17th and 18th century there were thousands of windmills along the dykes; sawmills, dye mills, oil mills etc that powered the Dutch economy. The Zaanse Schans village gives you a picture of what it must have been like. Not all the windmills and buildings started out in Zaanse Schans, many of them were moved here from the region as they came under threat from urban development across North Holland.