In a week you will certainly have time to go outside the town, if you are so inclined.
In town:
Museums, there are many different ones, from glasses and pianolas to history and science.
Art from ancient to modern.
http://www.brilmuseumamsterdam.nl/
http://www.pianola.nl/
http://www.ahm.nl/
http://www.e-nemo.nl/
http://www.amsterdam.info/museums/allard_pierson_museum/
http://www.stedelijk.nl/oc2/page.asp?PageID=150
Several of the houses in town are open for visits, here two special ones.
One with a church hidden in the attic, the other where Rembrand, the famous painter used to live.
Both are decorated with period furniture, and there are more museum-houses like this in town.
http://www.museumamstelkring.nl/onslieveheeropsolder/eng/home.php
http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_main.html
And this is just a very small selection of the museums in town.
There is shopping:
Kalverstraat, (Dam to Muntplein,) is famous, but there are more nice shopping streets.
Damstraat, Dam into the red light district has some nice shops, a dragon and fantasy figures shop, a Chinese shop with many different things, some big souvenir shops.
Het Singel, (Muntplein to Leidse straat,) has the flower market on one side, but on the otherside are a classy chinese shop and a hammock shop.
And there are many more streets, and markets and more.
You can sit in a 'terrasje' (a street side cafe,) to drink coffee or something else, or go into a nice pannekoek huis, (pancake restaurant) to have a pancake that is dinner size.
Walk along the canals, or take a cruise.
Rent a bike or join one of the many bike tours.
Strol through small streets with a lot of history or through the few that are rebuild after building the first Metro line.
Go out at night in the area of Leidse plein or have dinner in one of the many different small places on Zeedijk.
If you want to leave town you can book a tourbus at the tourist info office near the railway station, or walk into one of the places selling them on Damrak, (between the station and the square with the name Dam.)
I never used one of them, but I am sure they tell you what to expect, sights and souvenir shops.
You can also look what they have on offer and than take a train to the same places, many touristy towns can be reached by train (and/or) local bus in little time.
Famous tourist places:
Marken, Volendam, Edam, all traditional 'Holland' and rather touristy.
Hilversum, Bussum, Baarn, all in 'wooded' area, and nice to start a walk.
Zandvoort, Scheveningen, Hoek van Holland for beach.
Alkmaar, Haarlem, Utrecht, voor smaller towns.
Enkhuizen, Arnhem, Alphen aan de Rijn, each has an open air museum/park, showing different historical aspects of the country. (Archeon in Alphen is a comercial park covering from stone age to 1450, the other two are national museums and have the building that would have been in the Netherlands in the 19th and early 20th century.)
And so I can go on for a long time.
So get a good travelguide or walk into the tourist office, (locally called VVV.)
2007-08-08 07:23:51
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