How I spent my birthday in Amsterdam

in #travel7 years ago

Hi everyone, hope you all are alright!

Last year in the beginning of October I was thinking of where to spend my birthday ( I was born on October 20th)

I have never been in Amsterdam before that, so I really wanted to travel there. My colleague Dmitry, has called my cellphone on OCT 10th and told me that he is planning to go to Amsterdam on the same dates as me and he is planning to attend the Amsterdam Music Festival which is on the 21st of October.

So, I also bought a ticket to that festival, I thought it would be a great bday afterparty (it was definateli worth it).

Me and Dmitry boarding the plane for our Amsterdam flight

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Touchdown Amsterdam, Schiphol airport!

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As soon as we landed, we took a taxi (which cost about 50 EUR to the city centre) straight to our hotel. It was almost midnight, that is why we decided to take a taxi.

We check in to our hotel room and went outside right away for a walk to check out the city and maybe get beers, and more:))

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Obviously we went to the nearest bar to get some fresh Grolsch beer, after that we decided to go to a coffeeeshop by our hotel before goin to bed :)

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Next day we went for a walk around Amsterdam, the city is truly beautiful. (It was already my birthday)

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The day after, we went to a Moco Museum that held a Banksy exhibition which was called: Laugh Now, and a Dali exhibition whic was called: Genius

I have been a Banksy fan for a long time now, and I was pleasantly surprised and lucky to attend his exhibitions.
(I'm in love with street art)

And ofcourse Salvador Dali the legendary artist known around the whole world. (My mom's fav artist)

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BANKSY

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Also, the Moco museum had some Kaws sculptures for sale.

(Kaws in another legendary street artist, one of my favourites)

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Salvador Dali

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We spent about 3 hours in that museum, because it was super interesting.

Truly a great museum, make sure you go to Moco museum if you ever visit Amsterdam.

Me & a big gummy bear, right outside of Moco museum.

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I had to buy the Banksy book which called Home Sweet Home, since it is not sold in Russia

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After visiting the museum, we were on our way to our hotel, and saw a familiar face. It was Ginaluca Vacchi the famous Italian milionaire and DJ. We met him, he is a nice and humble individual, after he invited us to his DJ show at a night club the name of which I do not remember. He also said happy birthday to me :))

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We could not make it to his party sicne we had a Festival to attend that night.

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Amsterdam Music Festival #AMF

For me this festival was the best out of all the other fest's that I have ever attended.

It included dj's like:

David Guetta
Martin Garrix
Marshmello
Armin Van Buren
Yellow Claw
Hardwell
Dimitri Vegas
Don Diablo
Vini Vici

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And here some videos that I recorded from the AMF fest

Best. Festival. Ever.

For our last couple of days we walked around the beautiful city, drank beer, and chilled out.

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Late night bar hoping

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Check out the cat that lives in this bar :)

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On our way back to the airport for our flight back to Moscow, we went to a coffeeshop for some spacecakes, so our goes smoothly :))

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I will definately come back, because we still have not checked out the Vincent Van Gogh museum (there was a huge line and it was raining)

Also, we want to visit Rotterdam and Den Haag.

It was and amazing experience.

Beautiful city, nice people, and a great atmosphere!

Thanks for taking your time and reading all this.

Hope you have a great day.

P.S. I am sorry for any mistakes that I made in this post, it is just English is my third language, and I am trying hard to not make any mistakes!

Let me know what you think about my trip :)

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Good post. Very interesting. Love the ice cream Dr Green love.

Thanks!

One Love! :)

I need to go back to Amsterdam!

I am planning to go back this autumn!

Awesome post did you vissit the red light district hahaha just kidding great post thanks also good qaulity photos

Thanks.

Yes, we did go there :))

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