A Day in the Nieuwe Zijde
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Morning
Spend the morning in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum , although a morning is scarcely enough. When you feel like a break, leave the main building and head for the Kalverstraat entrance, where the café-restaurant David and Goliath is on your left. Make sure that you keep your ticket so that you can re-enter the museum without having to pay again. The end of the tour brings you to the excellent museum shop.
Rather than leaving by one of the exits, cut through the Civic Guards’ Gallery to the Begijnhof , and while away some time in this secluded place. Come out of the Gedempte Begijnensloot entrance and turn the corner into Spui, where you might lunch at Café Hoppeor Café Esprit (Spui 10).
Afternoon
After lunch, walk down Kalverstraat, the district’s main shopping street, to Dam Square, where you could visit the Koninklijk Paleis as well as the Nieuwe Kerk. Then take a break among the tiny shops built into the buttresses of the church in Gravenstraat; at No.18, De Drie Fleschjes is one of the oldestproeflokalen (tasting houses), dating from 1650.
When you are revived, walk down Damrak past the Beurs van Berlage to finish your day at the Centraal Station, where you can hop on a tram back to your hotel.
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