Hi guys!
We’re in Amsterdam and we wanted to get out of the downtown
and kind of explore an up and coming neighbourhood so I’m in De Pijp.
This is an urban oasis.
This park is called Sarphati Park and it’s right off of the main thoroughfare of De Pijp neighbourhood
which is called Ferdinand Bolstraat
and Bol was a Dutch painter with a very famous teacher: Rembrandt.
You can’t get more famous than that when it comes to The Netherlands
and this whole area actually has kind of an artistic past
so that kind of sets the tone having that as their main street.
De Pijp is also Amsterdam’s Latin quarter so we’re going to grab some coffee and explore.
I’m feeling kind of giddy because we just found the coolest place to get coffee.
Notice I didn’t say ‘coffee shop’ because, in Amsterdam, that’s a whole other thing.
But it’s called Cafe Blonde and I felt so excited because we were on the tram
on the way to that park and I saw this huge sign that said ‘Blonde Amsterdam’ inside.
So we went back and we got these delicious hot chocolates that are actually made with
this kind of fair trade chocolate that you see all around Amsterdam called Tony Chocolonely’s.
They’re delicious.
Yeah.
She asked if we wanted whip cream and we were like, ‘Yeah. I think so.’
They also have really cool gifts and just the whole aesthetic in there is so, so cool.
It’s one of my favourite things about exploring a new neighbourhood is just finding places
that you would spend a lot of time.
If we lived in Amsterdam I feel like that would be…
We would go there a lot.
…that would be my spot.
Yeah.
Anyway we’ve got our hot chocolate so we’re going to keep exploring.
You’re never too old for hopscotch and I didn’t even spill my hot chocolate.
We’re now in what is considered the heart of the De Pijp neighbourhood.
We’re at the market called the Albert Cuypmarkt and this has multicultural roots
because there were a lot of workers from Spain, Turkey, Morocco, and Suriname
and they brought their local ingredients and their cuisines to Amsterdam
and that's how this got started.
There are 260 stalls here selling all sorts of things
so we’re going to wander around and see what’s here.
As you’re walking around here there are so many delicious smells coming from the stalls,
except maybe the fish.
The fish.
Could do without the fish.
Could pass on that one.
But at least you always know where they’re at.
But there’s food that you can take away or food that you can eat here
and I can see why this is such a popular spot.
They serve all day breakfast.
I’m glad we’re sharing this.
This is a lot of food.
It looks really good. - I agree.
All right we’ve left lunch and we’re heading off to a spot that I’m really excited about
because it’s connected to a place that I learned about in art school.
What’s cool about this building behind me is it’s where Mondrian lived from the Bauhaus movement
and, allegedly, in the 1890s this is where he founded the De Stijl movement.
He spent a lot of time in De Pijp because he went to the Royal Academy of Visual Arts.
So it’s neat to think that this is the place where it all started.
We couldn’t come to the De Pijp neighbourhood without visiting this building behind us.
This is the Heineken brewery.
It’s actually the former Heineken brewery.
The first one built in 1864 and they don’t brew the beer here anymore but you can do a tour.
I don’t like beer but you do.
I do.
So we’re going to step inside and get a drink but we’re going to end the vlog here
so hopefully you guys enjoyed seeing this bit of Amsterdam.
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