My attempts at speaking Dutch when ordering breakfast this morning resulted in much more friendly service (not that it was unfriendly yesterday). Today’s walk around Amsterdam took in the Old Centre and the Jewish Quarter. One of the best places visited today was the Museum Het Rembrandthuis – a house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1658 which has been reconstructed to look just how it would have done back then. I also visited the memorial to the Auschwitz victims in Wertheim Park – broken mirrors covering the buried urn containing the ashes of the dead from the concentration camp – very thought-provoking.
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