Monday - 04-14-08 - First night on board - didn't sleep much - new mattress, up late, wine, wine, wine, etc. Today we did a driving tour and a canal cruise of Amsterdam mainly on the Prinsengracht Canal and saw stately homes from the Golden Age. This is also the canal that the Anne Frank House and the Westerkerk Church are on. This canal has man...

9 am sharp on Saturday morning: after a night of sex and drugs, I roll out of foam mattress on a cot (supposedly called a bed - HA) and get ready for the days adventures. We are driving 20 miles toward the coast, where we are stopping at a Cheese and Clog place, and then on to Volendam...cutesy little town. We watched how they make cheese, and h...

Hubert, a friend at work who happens to be from Holland, told me to visit this seaside fishing villages of Volendam and Marken. Volendam is about 30 miles north of Amsterdam and only a $6 bus ticket (round trip) away. This tiny little village is now more of a tourist attraction than a fishing village, but I too, would recommend this as a good da...

On the next morning we visited Volendam and the fishing village (yummy seafood) In the evening we went to Amsterdam sentral. Hectic and a bit on the dirty side.Sorry!