Doing Canals

Jannie, hadn't changed a bit! She came in at eight o'clock and we proceeded to to the central Amsterdam, after-hours tour. Most things don't get started until 11:00 but we were finished by midnight. Everybody eats and drinks till wee hours of the morning. We ate a Mexican restaurant .. and silly me, I had a Corona in the land of Heinekin. We slept right through till nine in the morning. It's okay as the 'continental' breakfast in the cafe section of the hotel doesn't get going until eight thirty anyway.

We were only able to book two nights in Amsterdam. There's some sort of conference going on and that combined with weekend-Euro-party people seemed to fill every reservation in the city. We packed as if we were to leave and then checked at noon to see if there was anyone who had cancelled. We were able to get another room although a bit more expensive. This means we won't have to spend the weekend in Rotterdam or somewhere else in the Netherlands.

We ate a leisurely lunch and after we got key at 2:00 pm, we took the tram back to Central Station. That's where all the canal tour boats leave from. We got on one and saw the city from canal level.

Nap time was short today. We'll play it by ear and see what happens later ...