Savouring Dutch Delights
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Happy
Raja to those who are celebrating it! It is the last day of this 3-day-long
festival. With the weekend coming to an
end, this festival also ends today. I hope the Raja Festival's coincidence with
weekends this year must have made manifold your feeling of joy.
I
planned to visit Amsterdam on 15.06 with my husband from Delft, where we live now.
It has just been 2 weeks since we moved to Delft from Espoo, and we got busy getting
some official work done, which is still in progress. We decided to take little
break from all of these and visit a place somewhat closer to Delft. So, I
booked Flixbus to Amsterdam for 15.06 which left from the Delft Station at
6:30 am. With the bus running at a speed of 100kmph, we reached Amsterdam in 1
hour. During our journey, we enjoyed some snacks that I bought a day before from
the supermarket like Cheese Croissants, Coconut Rings, Chocolate Roll, Salted
Peanuts, Indonesian Rice chips and Duo Cakes. Flix bus dropped us at Amsterdam Sloterdijk,
which was not the destination that we wanted to get down at. So, we took
metro from there to the Amsterdam Center which
dropped us at our destination in 3-4 minutes.
The sky was grey, and the weather was windy and rainy. We took a free boat tour from Amsterdam Central Station to Buiksloterweg. It was around 9 am and was early for any museum to get opened. A nearby Albert Heijn Store, a supermarket, saved us from, both hunger and windy weather. We immediately marched to the bakery section and grabbed some spinach and eggplant stuffed spring rolls and chocolate rolls. We had so much to explore within a limited time, so we quickly headed towards Buiksloterweg station to return to Amsterdam Central Station with the same free cruise tour. On that 15-minute ride, we enjoyed the spring rolls and I liked the taste of spinach-stuffed ones over eggplant-stuffed ones.
We
took the metro to the next station to Ronkin.
The weather was still windy and grey. We walked around a little bit in the
Amsterdam Central area, halting at the various stores like Souvenir stores, garment
stores, etc, while waiting for the weather to improve. There was a canal in that
region and the view around that was simply breathtaking when the sun started to
shine. We took a one-hour Canal Tour which was a guided one. The recording was
played in three languages; Dutch, German, and English. The boat provided the
much-needed warmth from the cold winds and comforted me to the extent that I reminiscence
this tour even today. We found Twin sister buildings, twin brothers buildings,
Mayor’s buildings, father & son buildings, dancing buildings, floating
Restaurant of Hong Kong, boat houses, a library, and swings from the topmost
buildings – all these at the right or left banks of the canal.
After
our canal tour, we found McDee to satisfy our hungry stomachs. On the way out
of that McDee, we found Flower’s Market and cheese stores. We visited some of
those and I purchased souvenir magnets. It was around 2pm by then and we had to
return to the stop of Flixbus at Amsterdam
Sloterdijk by 3PM. We boarded the bus on time and traveled from Amsterdam Sloterdijk to Hague. Our journey hadn’t been over yet. From Hague to Delft,
we traveled by sprinter and then from Delft Station to our apartment by cycle. That
was a long day and we really enjoyed it.
There’s
a lot to explore in this new country and city; be it places or local cuisines.
We couldn’t try the famous waffles which we keep on our wish list for the next
time.
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Swati Sarangi
16.06.2024
P.S: I’m participating in #BlogchatterFoodFest2024.
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