Anne Frank House

A sad welcome to my final blog post ☹

This last blog post will discuss other outings from Amsterdam including the Anne Frank House and a cool rooftop bar.

One of the top things on our to-do list in Amsterdam was to visit the Anne Frank House and for obvious reasons no pictures were allowed to be taken.  To be honest, I didn’t really know a lot about the Frank family or even the war.  However, this did not matter as the headset that was provided was very informative of everything I had to know to understand Anne Frank’s House.  The experience was so eerie - to see behind the bookcase and be exactly where such fear had existed.  The whole house is emptied of furniture, but pictures show exactly how the family lived during their time in the Annexe.  As you go through all the rooms, more and more of their story is told - up to and including when they were captured, it then takes you through a brief story of their time at the different camps of which they died, and follows on a little about how Otto Frank survived.

This experience was very hard-hitting, however so intriguing, would 10/10 recommend if youre interested in that type of stuff. 

So just to end on a happy note – the rooftop bar - DoubleTree by Hilton

We went here 2 nights as after the first we had to go back! They did some fabulous cocktails and had a fabulous view – what more do ya want???

Here’s Clare pretending shes drinking and if you are a “sucker for a rooftop bar” like Roxanne, then this one is for you!

Alas my blogging days are over.  Special shoutout to Clare and Roxanne for sharing these experiences with me!!

Thanks for reading !

Heineken Experience

Welcome to my 4^th blog post!!

This blog will tell the tale of my Heineken Experience experience.  

This, for me, was one of the best parts of the trip and costs €18 when booking online, which includes the guided tour, some fun games, 1 drink during the tour, and 2 drinks tokens at the bar at the end. 

Firstly, the guided tour gives a detailed insight to the history of Heineken and how it was made when Heineken was founded in 1864 by showing videos and getting the audience (well, just Clare) involved in some of the activities that were carried out – she enjoyed herself.  Then showing how it is made now on a huge scale. 

Following this, we seen some horses that were used in the production of the lager – one which was called Jean-Francois to which my French friend Roxanne was very displeased when I said in my Scottish-ish accent Jean Francis.  I was abruptly corrected it was JON-FRANCWO!! 

THEN!! We were led to this room full of games n stuff and let me tell you, there was an argument during this as no one told me what my face was in so that I could pull a relevant expression.  

But alas, this was the end of our tour, and we were led to THE BEST ‘DAM BAR and let me tell u, it was up there!! So as I said, the ticket includes 2 drinks tokens but if you’re planning to go to the Heineken Experience, get the table closest to the door, as countless people gave us their tokens when they were leaving if they didn’t want to stay for a drink.  Roxanne and I left here significantly shapeless which made it a 10/10 trip, and Clare, although she was not drinking had a fab time listening to the techno!! 

Thank u all, see u again for the last post!