• Lanskroom tea room
• Arles restaurant
• Rijks museum
• Pulitzer hotel
• Flower market
• canal tour
• anne frank museum
• van gough meseum
• boat to Vondel park
• The view from the rooftop bar of the Hilton doubletree
• I Amsterdam Letters
• Take the free ferry from behind the Centraal Station and hop over to towards the A’Dam Lookout.
• House of Bols Museum
• Coffee and Coconuts: Ceintuurbaan 282-284, 1072 LR Amsterdam, Netherlands
• food stalls in De Pijp market
• app called Triposo which got us round the streets on foot and also recommended places to eat – you can even download the maps when you’re on wifi to view offline
• Amsterdam Cheese Museum v small
• Behind the Central Station you can take the free Amsterdam Public Transport ferry to the North of Amsterdam. The ferry crosses the river IJ (pronounced “eye”) and you will have a wide view of the Amsterdam waterfront. There are 3 different routes:

– “Buiksloterweg” – This one is the shortest of the three and crosses the river straight ahead (every 6 minutes) – “IJplein” – This one goes to a more residential area with some shops (every 10 minutes) – “NDSM Werf” – This one goes left and goes much further than the other two. If you really want to get a nice view of Amsterdam from the water and the industrial harbor are this is the best one to take. (every 30 minutes) Central Station backside- De Ruijterkade]

• The Begijnhof is the ideal place to visit for an escape from the noise of the city. To explore this secret courtyard find the heavy wooden door in Amsterdam’s busy centre (entrance on Spui), push it open, and an oasis of 14th-century houses and gardens appears, along with two churches. The Begijnhof is at medieval street level, which means a meter below the rest of the old city center. Also here is Amsterdam’s oldest house (one of the city’s only two remaining wooden houses), dating from 1475. Women still live here, so groups aren’t allowed and visitors are asked not to make too much noise. The Begijnhof is definitely worth a mention on this list of free things to do in Amsterdam.

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