Our final day in Amsterdam before getting on our boat tomorrow afternoon for the river cruise. Back to the same tram as yesterday and off to the Resistance Museum. It took some organisation as some tram changes were required but we negotiated it ok. The museum was excellent.

The Nazis attacked the (neurtral) Netherlands early with the bombing of Rotterdam whereupon the government surrendered under threat of further bombings of other cities. There were some who joined the Nazi movement but the majority of people resisted the occupation by them. Many were sent to camps in Germany for almost any reason including - political, gay, prostitution, repeat offenders, being jewish and many others. As the Germans started to lose the war most of these who ended up in camps in Germany were sent to Auschwitz and were never heard of again.

There were very many personal stories of people who resisted, people who did not and wished they had and some for those who worked for and/or helped the Nazis and regretted it later. It took 3 hours to go around and we would recommend it.

Leaving there we found a restaurant for a very nice late lunch/early dinner before going to the Dam Square. We investigated that area for an hour and a half and sorted out how to get home with a little, but not too much, difficulty. We had a problem with our tram tickets which had run out of value but we could purchase tickets for a period of one hour to get home. We would not recommend anyone do this as it is more expensive than purchasing the topup card. As we mentioned in our first Amsterdam blog we could only do this at the Central Station as we did not have a Maestro card (this is not meant to be an advertisement for them).

Back at the apartment we are eating up all our food and drinking up all our drink ready to leave in the morning.