Christmas Day in Amsterdam

The reason we are ending our German Christmas market tour in Amsterdam is that shops and museums are open on the 24th and 25th. In Germany the holidays start on the 24th so we would have had two days sitting around if we stayed in Germany.

Today we went to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedeljlk (museum of modern art) and the Rijksmuseum which is their national museum.  It wasn’t so busy at 10am but a few hours later the museums were crowded. We picked these three as they were in the same area of Amsterdam. We also had the bonus of the Amsterdam Christmas market between the museums. Their food was different with burritos, herring sandwiches, fried fish and of course sausages.

It ended up being a 18k step day. We were exhausted but still stopped at the grocery store on the way home to figure out what to make for Christmas dinner.  Our airbnb has the nicest kitchen of any place we have stayed so it's nice to cook after being out all day.