Budget Suggestion for a Rainy Day
Help! It’s raining and you have already been to Anne Frankhuis and Van Gogh Museum. You spent hours in a brown café, sipping Heineken. You hopped on a tram and saw Amsterdam from steamed-up windows. You wandered through Bijenkorf Department Store and did not buy anything because your budget did not allow you AND IT IS STILL RAINING.
Here is my budget suggestion for a rainy day: Spend an afternoon in de Openbare Bibliotheek, the Public Library. This huge library is spread over ten floors. You can read books in English, Dutch French, German, Spanish and other languages. Six hundred PCs ensure that there is always one for you to surf the web and it is free. International newspapers and magazines are there for you to browse. Dream away listening to your favourite music at one of the CD listening posts, or gaze out of the window for the sweeping views of the city. Each floor has large panoramic windows, but the best place to enjoy the vistas of the Amsterdam is the restaurant on the seventh floor.
QUICK FACTS
WHAT: Openbare Bibliotheek
WHERE: Oosterdokskade 143 (map)
OPENING HOURS: daily from 10:00 – 22:00
TRAM: 25 and 26
photo credit: RNW @flickr
