To start here are the answers to your questions; Auntie Sue was going down the staircase in our hotel. Kathy we have included the picture of the skinny bridge today, with captions, hopefully. The blog learning curve continues! The skinny bridge is just a pedestrians bridge.
On to todays tours, we chose to leave the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam for the surrounding country side, our first stop was Zaanse Schans to visit a working windmill. The windmill we toured was grinding spices, the other windmills were sawing lumber and pumping water. In the day, the Netherlands had 10, 000 windmills and now only 800 remain, all of which are protected heritage buildings. Then we boarded the bus to travel a short distance to the fishing village of Volendam to visit a cheese factory and have lunch. At the cheese factory, we were given a short demonstration on the making of cheese and then we were let loose in the shop to test as many sample as we wished. Most were very good and some not so much. After a lovely quick meal at a fish restaurant, it was back on the bus to complete our tour in Marken to visit a traditional clog maker. Again a short humorous demo, then onto shopping. No clogs for this crew, no room in the luggage! We finished the day of with late afternoon coffee in a quaint french bakery, a nap and a lovely Italian meal. Now time to struggle everything back into the suitcase for the next leg of our trip.
The 'Skinny Bridge'
We are enjoying your trip….
Tours look like a lot of fun!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the cow in clogs! how FUN is that!
We were sitting here watching the Olympics and wondering if we might happen to see you at some events. Decided to check the internet to see which speed skater you would be watching as I could’t remember from your Christmas letter and all of sudden your pictures popped up with your blog. Surprised myself that I could actually find you on here. It will be fun to follow your Olympic adventure. Sounds great so far. Enjoy and we will be watching for you guys in the crowds.
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Hope your trip to Sochi was good and uneventful. Looking forward to your posts while you are there. Will be looking for you on Sunday at the ski jumping event. Didn’t realise you are 9hrs ahead of us in Ontario. Love you guys.
Love the daily posts. You guys are out of this world lucky to be there. Aimee says go to as many bakeries as you can. Will check daily for updates.
Looks like you guys are having a lot of fun! Love the cow!
Hi all we are experiencing some issus with posting the blog. We are all safe and sound.
We are experincing some issues with posting the blog. All is well and we are safe and sound in Sochi.
There’s the skinny bridge, thanks! Great photos. I would have like to test the cheeses and see the windmills.