Day 78 - Saturday 20 July - Rijksmuseum

Saturday 20 July

This museum is high on most lists, and so was high on David's. It started to rain as we walked, the first we've had in ages.  We went via the flower market, expecting to see buckets and buckets of beautiful blooms. Instead there were fridge magnets about windmills, and lots of packets of tulip bulbs which are no good to us (shame).

We got to the Rijks just before 10:00, and had considerable difficulty with our Q-codes on my phone, again.  But after yesterday's trouble I'd emailed all the relevant pass emails to D, so he had them on his phone, and they let us in. These visits are getting longer - we were there until 16:30. 

 Vermeer's 'Milkmaid', and a guide who had to stand in front of everything.

 The library of the house before it was a museum.

 The family who play together ... 'David Leeuw with his Family'  by  Abraham van den Tempel,  1671

My favourite - "Children in the sea" by Jozef Israels, 1872

"The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar",     Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen,     c 1621.
I love all the bodies and bits of ship flying everywhere.

"Tobit and Anna with the Kid",  by   Rembrandt van Rijn, 1626

 "Cellar of the Artist's Home in The Hague",  by  Johann Hendrik Weissenbruch,   1888

We got some new SIM cards on the way home, having been without phone and mobile data since Avignon. Once home, I collapsed for a short while, then we went Italian across the road.