Final Day of Amsterdam, Sunday, September 2, 2012 Sunday morning and the streets were quiet. It was overcast but in the low 20’s as we walked over to Mike’s Bike Tours. Actually, great biking weather. We decided to take a four hour bike tour into the Dutch countryside. The tour guides were quite funny. After making sure we could all ride and that we knew the rules, we were …
The sun was shining, it was warm. It seems everyone in Amsterdam was out on the streets, biking or soaking up some sun in a sidewalk café. We spent the whole day walking around the city, along the canals and through the markets. It seems that lots of markets pop up on Saturday morning in Amsterdam. If you close your eyes, you can practically tell where you are, be …
The last day of August and the day started out being dull, drizzly and 16 degrees. Yikes. This morning we were at the Ann Frank House by 10:00am. It opened at 9:30am and we had to wait in line about 10 minutes to get in. The museum is really well done, clear, concise and really brings the story home. I was glad that I had read the diary before …
Before we left our hotel in Gent, I had to take a picture of the vending machine that sells Belgium Beer along with the coke. On our way to Amsterdam we stopped at Kinderdijk which is a town in the Netherlands that has a 19 windmills in one small area. It is a UNESCO world heritage site. We spent a few hours there. We all toured one of the …