Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
Brussels is a big city – it’s the capital of Europe – but is often tagged as a boring city with not much to see or do. False! We managed to do a lot in the few days that we were there.
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Time flies yadda yadda. Our two days in Cologne (“Köln” for you Teutophiles) hardly seemed like a blink.
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Art is not the only thing that Europe has to offer. There’s lots of old stuff, too. When we weren’t looking at art, we were delving into local history.
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The Rijksmuseum is my second favorite museum (sorry, the Prado wins out, but it’s close), so I was a little more than excited to be able to give the folks a guided tour of some of the highlights of the Rijksmuseum. Unfortunately, it has a has a high volume of of great masterpieces, which makes paring down the tour to a manageable morning was a chore I didn’t relish, but I think we managed OK.
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Mom & Dad arrived on a Wednesday morning, and after dropping luggage off at our apartment, we set out do some of the most Amsterdammy things to do – visiting Rembrandt’s house, shopping for tulips, and learning about canal houses.
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In April we played tour guides to Meghan’s parents, and in September we had the fun of dragging my parents around the Netherlands, Germany (Cologne), Belgium, and France. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post summaries of that visit.
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