Last day in Amsterdam

We squeezed in four museums for our last day in town. We started our day at the Anne Frank house. This was the place where Anne Frank and her family hid for two years during the Nazi occupation. We were able to walk through the place and examine pages of the diary. It's a must see.

We also went to a place called Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder which is a catholic church that was hidden in the attic of a private citizens home. Catholic churches were converted to Protestant in the late 1600s by the order of their new king, so catholics had to have their services in secret. This building survived mostly as it was configured so it was cool to see. The church occupied the top two floors of this house and even had all the features of a regular church like the confession room, pipe organ and area for the priest to live.

On our way to our next stop we walked by the edge of the red light district, it was still too early for the ladies to be working. Since the ladies were not in the windows you could see to the back area where the business was conducted.  Too bad we didn’t get a family selfie here…

Anyhow our final stops were the Royal Palace, and the Amsterdam museum. Both were just OK, not to sound too snobby but after you see the chateau and royal palaces in France and England, the rest of the worlds royal palaces don’t compare.