Amsterdam Guide

welcome to Amsterdam capital of Holland come out of the terminal turn right walk 15 minutes towards the city center just ten minutes away from the ship is Central Station and one of the most popular ways of getting around Amsterdam is by bike and here's where you can rent one although you could have booked all of these and our choice page on tourist visits right next to the bike rental is the tourist office if you walk through the station and come out the back you will find Amsterdam and just as important a map of Amsterdam and on it are all the main places to visit and below is a list of the trams or the buses you can take to get there for example Anne Frank's house is number one so Anne Frank's house is up there and you take a number 13 or 17 tram van Gogh museum number 4 which is over there which means you take the b2 or the v12 tram we're loving the walk to on Frank's house and as you can see it's clearly signposted I Spy and Mark you on the way if you love flea markets there's no shortage of them anyway let's get back on track to Anne Frank's house [Music] yes stay left I'm getting close to Anne Frank's house you can see all the people outside but we saw something else on the way that we want to have a look at it's a tulip Museum this flower Fair is there beautiful the museum tells the history of tulips how they were manufactured in olden times how the mania for tulips began how they became the beginning of the futures trading and how they're manufactured now it's well worth a visit only five euros and the shop is beautiful this is Anne Frank's house where I'm Frank head from 1942 to 1944 and wrote her famous star is upstairs is a bookcase which conceals the part of the house where they hid from the Germans the entrance is round the corner but you can only buy your tickets online and in advance sometimes booked up a month in advance so go to Doris visits and book your tickets before you come just around the corner from am Frank's is a really nice cafe it's called black and blue and it's got free Wi-Fi the Amsterdam canals are being dredged and they're bringing up bicycles and metal and it's all gonna be recycled this is dan square it's the main square it's like a Trafalgar Square behind me is the Royal Palace and over there is Madame Tussauds and down there is Central Station where we started this morning in the back streets there are loads of restaurants and coffee shops with great cakes inside one of the canals you'll find the flower market and there is every kind of flower you can think of and it smells gorgeous I wish this was smelly vision many of the tulips a wooden or plastic or felt but the bulbs are real you gotta have some chips with mayonnaise while you're here and they don't hold back on the mayonnaise look [Music] and if you want to see it here's the red-light district just outside the red-light district is a seventeenth-century house it's very well preserved and in the Attic is a complete church dating back from the time when the Catholics weren't allowed to worship in public there's a reason why Amsterdam is called the venice of the north and right here you a spot for choice with cruises you can get a hop-on hop-off canal cruise you can get a lover's cruise you can get a watercolors cruise and later on tonight you can get a special laser light cruise you you