We met up with the woman who is looking after the apartment for the owner. She lives in the next floor down and we just wanted to meet her and thank her for her help while we had been here. Anne had googled the name of the woman who owns the flat, Tessa Duyven, as she is a writer. As it turns out she is quite a well known writer who wrote "The Twins" which oddly enough Anne and Lesley had been talkiing about a few days ago. We then arranged to be collected b...

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 ...

Instead of walking to the Central Station as we have done on other days we decided to go a different way by tram. It required one change but we negotiated it without too much trouble. Unlike Brussels there is not much signage which has English so it has taken a while to get familiar with some of the local words. We have decided to split up for part of the day with the boys doing the Heinekin Experience and the girls doing the local Albert Cuyp market. As it tur...

Early start as we head to Bruges. The highlight of our trip was actually being able to get back to Amsterdam! It all started when we got on the train without our tickets being checked and when they checked them on the train it was found we had got on a day early. They could have off loaded us on the way but did not. We were told we needed to change our return tickets to Amsterdam at the Brussels ticket office as well as our tickets from Brussels to Bruges. Afte...

Another lovely day - we have been really lucky. After doing some laundry (advantage of being in an apartment) we headed out to use up the remaining hours on our hop-on/hop-off tickets and see that part of the canal which had been closed yesterday. After our trip we got off at the Rijksmuseum where we had again prebooked tickets but for any time during the day. Our time there was not long enough as the museum closed an hour earlier than we had been led to believ...