I got up nice and early and set out on the hunt for breakfast and coffee.
Well, it looks like the population of Amsterdam had a good night. Quite the mess. The cleaners were hard at work cleaning the roads and footpaths.
I wandered past the doors of doom. One of the residents opened her door and asked if I wanted a cookie. I declined politely. She said she didn’t like that sort. I smiled and kept walking. I found a nice café where I had scrambled eggs with toast, ham & cheese for breakfast.
After that I walked down past the central railway station and browsed a few of the souvenir shops. I came across the Amsterdam Madame Tossauds. The queue to get in was quite long, so I kept walking. I found a square that appeared to be the movie murderers buskers spot.
There were a number of ‘Death’s’ and some guy with scissor hands. Quite odd.
Shortly thereafter Doug made contact as they’d had to check out of their rooms. I made my way back so they could put their bags into my room. We walked to Rembrandts house, where Chris and Peter went in for a look around and the rest of us had a coffee/tea whilst we waited. I then managed to convince them we should walk to the Van Gogh museum. On the way we past the Richts museum.
That place had a massive queue to get it. Aaha! We thought, we’ll keep heading to the Van Gogh museum. Oh dear, It also had a scary queue. So we gave up, found a café/pub and had a bit of a rest/beer/snack.
Peter and Chris decided to go and see some football stadium somewhere and John wanted to find somewhere to watch another football game that was on. So Doug and I chilled beside a canal and read our books.
Eventually they all returned. They grabbed their bags and headed for the airport. I set off to hunt down a couple of geocaches and get some washing done, YAY clean clothes FTW! . Unfortunately the areas were very busy with people pretty much sitting on the cache locations. A quick dinner and a few dusk shots of a canal (30secs @ F30 with ISO 200), a tripod would have been handy.
Now to prepare/pack for tomorrows drive back into Germany. Hopefully I can find the car.