The canal cruise was a great way to see Amsterdam from another angle. It's always an interesting city to be in; the scenery is never boring. There are canals, tall, narrow houses -- some leaning at interesting angles -- the ladies in the red light district, the cross dressers on the corner, the smell of pot wafting out of "coffee" houses, and hoardes of people going everywhere by bike, tram, boat, car and foot. They hang out in parks (when it's sunny), shop, eat, drink, hang out and hang out some more. We had lunch with Lynn and Mark after the canal tour in a food emporium, then we split up and spent our day finishing the tour of the flower market and basically wandering around, meandering the narrow streets back to our hotel for dinner. It was our last night in Amsterdam and, thanks to our wandering, were too tired to do much else. We finished packing and crashed.
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| New Market |
Bikes, bridges, boats and canals
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| Canals and bikes |
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| Dutch architecture |
Tall, narrow houses reduced tax on the front edifice, but they extend to the rear of the block.
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| Flower Market |
The flower market -- about 3 city blocks of flowers, vases, seeds, tubers, botanically themed tschotschkes of all kinds
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| canal bridges |
I would visit Amsterdam again. But now, it's time to go home. Auf wiedersein! (Which is German, but I don't know it in Dutch.)
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