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Rails and tales + John's latest flames!
... for a very tiny leak on the tap fixing. When it had finished we noticed there was a small damp patch on the carpet. We got the machine out but could not see where the leak was from, so we will have to inspect next time.
John fixed our escape ladder and put up the small shelf in the aft cabin for Isi’s morning cup of tea.
We went to a local pub to use their internet and publish our blogs again. Then back to bed.
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Schaar Gutje Bicycle Tour
We met noisily this afternoon in the lobby of the Ibis Hotel -- all having travelled on separate flights (to prevent the decimation of the Simons family in case of accident). Wally and Sue were delivered to the hotel by cousins Wil and Truus, so we all exchanged triple cheeked kisses in the Dutch fashion. The rest of us had arrived in various states of sleep deprivation ...
Day 2 – History, culture & prostitutes
... with WWII literature, having read Anne Frank’s diary as a teenager, and recently purchased another copy. The Secret Annexe was a definite must-see for me in Amsterdam. I purchased tickets on-line beforehand, but even booking in advance I could only reserve tickets at a 7pm timeslot. Arriving fifteen minutes early, we hung around Westerkerk and took a peek at the Homomonument, commemorating all gays and lesbians that have been persecuted because ...
Arriving in Amsterdam
... cops that drove past didn’t seem at all worried about it.
While we were waiting for Susan to check us into the hotel, we had quite an experience. A truck squeezed down the road, and let me tell you, this is quite a trick, our car hardly fits along the roads here. So this truck had to use every inch it could find. But the bike riders in Amsterdam had some gal, ...
Hallo Amsterdam
... we hadn't already laughed enough the night before, we laughed some more.
Walking through the red light district later that night was interesting, and I was able to compare it to the last time I'd been there in 2007. Wandering the red-lit streets at night with a group of girls was glaringly different to walking through with a group of guys, and I definitely felt more uncomfortable than I did the first time I was there. Regardless, it was fun ...