Amsterdam (Spring Break City 4 of 4)

Amsterdam is generally well known for pot being as common as coffee and for their shocking red light district. Although I found both of those claims to fame to be true and prevalent, the city was still a joy to explore.

Amsterdam is actually a series of 80 small islands, each divided by grid-like man-made canals. It is a little confusing to get around at first if you don't have a detailed map but we managed to find where we needed to go. 

We didn't visit many museums while we were there but we did spend a little bit of time at the Anne Frank House. If you ever have just a short time to spend in Amsterdam, I would highly recommend paying this museum a visit. The house where the Frank family hid from Nazi capture is still standing and, although furniture is gone, the walls and conditions have been left the same. 

Another must do-while in Amsterdam is to rent a bike. Every street, canal, and fence had bike upon bike piled up, only leaving room for intersections. I swear Amsterdam could do their census by counting the number of bikes lining the streets. 

Amsterdam was great fun but I'm glad we only spent two days there. I enjoyed sightseeing but was quite glad to return to Antibes after a long week of traveling.