Netherlands

Well our visit to Amsterdam is almost over. Today we went to the Rembrandt House museum. It’s only 5 minutes from our houseboat but we never made it there before today. Rembrandt was not who I thought he was. Turns out he was most famous for sketching and making prints of the sketch, not paintings. The rest of the day we wandered around the parts of the city...

We were in the train station this morning and I decided to buy a Coke for the trip. They all had names on them but since I don’t know any Kevin’s, Bianca’s or Mandy’s, I chose the Jennifer, since I do know a Jennifer or two!

This is a purpose built parking garage for bikes at the Central Station. It can hold 2500 bicycles, which sounds like a lot but we found out that 10,000 bikes park in and around the Central Station everyday. Amsterdam has a population of 800,000 and has over 1 million bikes.

We’ve embarked on a canal voyage throughout the city. You may have heard of a hop in, hop off bus, we’ll here, they have a hop in, hop off canal boat. These are some of our sights.

This is the church that houses the bells that assisted in playing a song with the Music Boat. See the post previous to this one for a video.

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Stopped for lunch on the edge of the canal, right in front of Anne Frank House, when a guy in this weird looking boat started blowing on his trumpet. Turned out he was playing a song with the guy running the church bells above.

We saw this guy transporting a book case down the street on his bike.

We spent the rest of the day walking through the maze of streets. Had to keep moving because it was a little chilly with the windy and overcast. As you can see, we found ourselves in a couple tourist stores. We also found the the flower market, which is the equivalent of a city block in length. Like a lot of things here, it’s right on a canal. Apparently the...