Woke to a beautiful blue sky and the promise of a glorious day, brisk but sunny, just perfect for our walking tour of Amsterdam.
We packed our bags and headed out about 1030 to meet up with the walking tour. The Sandemans Tour was fantastic. We were a bit worried to start as over 100 people had turned up to participate but they quickly brought in more guides and even though we had 40 people in our group the guide made sure he stopped where we could all surround him to hear the commentary. Rob, our guide was fantastic, had loads of information and a good sense of humour and showed us some great little hidden gems. Unfortunately we had to leave the tour early as we had to get back to the hotel to collect bags and get to the meeting place for the river cruise.
Boarded to Avalon Vista at 4pm and found our lovely room, we will certainly being travelling in style. The boat is great with lots of room in the lounge and dining areas and each level has another smaller lounge which has the coffee/tea making facilities which are available 24hrs.
We had a delicious 4 course dinner and far too much wine and am now dreading facing the scales when we return.
Awoke this morning to rain, a sore throat and a rotten headache (part cold and part too much wine). We rugged up and went off on the cruise organised canal tour. Not the best day to try and see the sights so we were grateful we had arrived the few days earlier.
Now back on boat and planning on spending the rest of the day being dry and warm inside and having time to catch up on emails and a good book, with lots of soothing lemon tea inbetween with the hope of feeling better tomorrow.
We packed our bags and headed out about 1030 to meet up with the walking tour. The Sandemans Tour was fantastic. We were a bit worried to start as over 100 people had turned up to participate but they quickly brought in more guides and even though we had 40 people in our group the guide made sure he stopped where we could all surround him to hear the commentary. Rob, our guide was fantastic, had loads of information and a good sense of humour and showed us some great little hidden gems. Unfortunately we had to leave the tour early as we had to get back to the hotel to collect bags and get to the meeting place for the river cruise.
Boarded to Avalon Vista at 4pm and found our lovely room, we will certainly being travelling in style. The boat is great with lots of room in the lounge and dining areas and each level has another smaller lounge which has the coffee/tea making facilities which are available 24hrs.
We had a delicious 4 course dinner and far too much wine and am now dreading facing the scales when we return.
Awoke this morning to rain, a sore throat and a rotten headache (part cold and part too much wine). We rugged up and went off on the cruise organised canal tour. Not the best day to try and see the sights so we were grateful we had arrived the few days earlier.
Now back on boat and planning on spending the rest of the day being dry and warm inside and having time to catch up on emails and a good book, with lots of soothing lemon tea inbetween with the hope of feeling better tomorrow.
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