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two days as a tourist (part 2)
Jun. 10th, 2006 04:55 pmOn Wednesday, we went out to see the Anne Frank House. Despite having read her diary a number of times growing up, I hadn't really felt any particular desire to go see the house, but Jyoti did, and that was enough incentive to go along with.
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We then headed over to the Resistance Museum, which is actually quite close to our apartment and the office. Everything I could've hoped for, emotionally, in visiting the Anne Frank House I got at the Resistance Museum. ( Read more... )
So those were my two days of being a tourist in Amsterdam. It's incredibly hard to be a tourist in a city where you live. I lived in Madison 6 years and never did end up getting to the Elvehjem Museum (which is no longer the LVM, it's the "Chazen Museum of Art", I see). I don't like being a tourist - I don't like marking myself out as someone who doesn't live here, because I do live here! But it's nice to have friends come visit, because they ARE tourists, and there's nothing wrong with accompanying tourists. :)
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We then headed over to the Resistance Museum, which is actually quite close to our apartment and the office. Everything I could've hoped for, emotionally, in visiting the Anne Frank House I got at the Resistance Museum. ( Read more... )
So those were my two days of being a tourist in Amsterdam. It's incredibly hard to be a tourist in a city where you live. I lived in Madison 6 years and never did end up getting to the Elvehjem Museum (which is no longer the LVM, it's the "Chazen Museum of Art", I see). I don't like being a tourist - I don't like marking myself out as someone who doesn't live here, because I do live here! But it's nice to have friends come visit, because they ARE tourists, and there's nothing wrong with accompanying tourists. :)
