Amsterdam

Here's a few photos from Amsterdam. Meg is standing in front of one of Sarah's favorite lunch places. It was great - and we arrived just before the crowd. They make both sweet and savory pancakes - very thin. I had a huge thin pancake with onions and tomatoes. Wonderful place, Sarah !

This is a typical medium sized canal scene. The boats are mostly old canal cargo boats converted into living quarters - and they are everywhere along the medium sized canals. Most of the larger boats looked like they never moved, folks just lived in them. A few of the smaller ones appeared as if they could move under their own power.

There are shops on the ground floor of many of the buildings, with apartments above.

This is the Anne Franke house - just a couple blocks from Pancake place. The line to go in was more than a block long and it was raining, so we chose not to wait. The entrance to the tour was a few doors to the right. Everyone is pointing at the sign because I hadn't understood which house was the actual spot. They are attempting to show the ignorant photographer what the sign says.

This is a triple level bike parking lot, near the main train station in downtown Amsterdam. Thousands of bikes in the lot. Everyone rides bikes in Holland.

The farther tour boat is like the one we took to tour the city. The nearer one appears older. The tour threads back and forth through the canals that are all over the city. You can get off the boats at any stop and hop on the next boat that comes by. Between all the canals, bridges over them, levees and dams, I'm guessing there is lots of work for civil engineers.