We had a great final day in Amsterdam! We rode bikes all over the city and didn't cause any accidents, although other riders did ding their bells at me a few times. The morning started off well, when the Aussie we hired the bikes from directed us to a coffee shop run by a guy from Melbourne. Best cup of coffee I've had in nine months! Thanks Aussie mafia! After a proper day-starter, we rode our bikes through some residential suburbs down to Vondel Park. We rode...

We're getting into the swing of this travelling gig. We got up too late to do what we intended, so called an audible and had an easy morning. We found a great bakery/deli for breakfast and just chilled. I feel a little more localised, as it wasn't in a touristy place, and my crossaint and chocolate was devine. We then spent about 4 hours at Amsterdam's #1 museum, the Rijks Museum. It first opened in 1885, and it has just finished this year a major restoration to...

We spent this morning at the Van Gogh Museum. It's lovely and is organised by the stages of his life. He only was an artist for the last 10 years of his life, but he was so prolific. In my next life I'd like to be an artistic genius, but as most of them wind up committing suicide, maybe not. Peter and I split up in the afternoon - he went off to the Maritime Museum and I wandered the shopping area Nine Little Streets and more of the Jordaan neighbourhood. I didn...

I'm exhausted tonight, having tried to cover so much of this beautiful city over the first two days of our stay here. Yesterday after we arrived from Maastricht about 2:00 pm, we strolled through the Jordann (yor-DAHN) neighbourhood where we're staying, and hooked up with my neice Kimberly who we overlapped with here for one day. Later we took a boat tour with the owner of the accommodation business we booked our room with. Frederic has just a small boat that w...

My son's been raving about how beautiful Maastricht is for years, and now that we've caught up with him here, I have to agree - it's such a lovely small city. We've had a fantastic couple of days catching up with Bennett and Lara, as well as my niece Kimberly who extended a work trip to the UK to join us for the weekend. The city has been so fun to explore - the old walled city is packed with interesting shops, restaurants and bars. The river sets a beautiful ba...