We had a 20 minute walk to the train station from our boat. And then we had to get Tram 1 from central station to take it to our accommodations. Bob and Tracy and Bart and I are staying at Wouter and Zu’s (my Dutch friends) and Steve and Andrea found a B&B very close to us, about a 10 minute walk away.
We dropped our luggage off and then we walked through Vondel Park to get to the city centre. It is about 3.5 km long walk through the park. They have a natural area where we saw a stork with her baby and many other birds. The birds were singing the whole time as we walked. And so many bikes zipping through!
We went to the flower market. It is the largest floating flower market in the world. It is amazing how they figure out how to find more space by using the canals and adding floating buildings.
We headed to where we would get a canal cruise later today, but then had difficulty finding a place to stop for dinner. Also it was rainy. We finally found a small pub where they were playing the soccer game and it was very loud. There wasn’t much room, but he found a spot for the 6 of us, but did comment the only reason was that I was persistent. Hmmm…I didn’t say much, I just sat down, so I guess he thought that meant I wasn’t moving. Lol. Well..we stayed for snacks and drinks and then also stayed for dinner! He ended up semi-warming up to us.
We had a canal wine and cheese cruise at 7:15. It was rainy so a bit difficult to see as the plastic windows were fogging up but none the less fun. We met Angela and Derek from Canada. They had just arrived in Amsterdam for a weeks visit.
After the canal cruise we took the tram back to our accommodations. We were all very tired after a long day of walking around Amsterdam.
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