Wed.28th August : A bike ride, train ride and then a tram ride and we were in the city of Amsterdam yesterday morning. The bike ride was to the nearby station where we paid 7,50 Euros each for a day ticket…the trains run every few minutes but because of track work being done on ‘our’ line, we weren’t able to travel all the way by train, having to transfer to a tram to complete the journey. We found it a bit confusing at first until we realised that the tram travels along the same track as the train! So, we got off the train, walked down a little ramp, and two minutes later, got on the tram.
On our arrival in the city, the first thing we did was to buy hop on hop off canal boat tickets and we spent the day touring Amsterdam by boat and by tram, with a little bit of walking thrown in. It’s easy to get around, very busy, cheerful, interesting and although we are not big city people, we found that we liked it very much.
Mike did the ‘Heinekin Experience’, recommended to him by Kym and thoroughly enjoyed it,
we wandered through the ‘red light’ district…interesting…stopped at a few cafes for refreshments throughout the day and of course, took many photos. When we returned to our station on the way home guess what? Our bikes were still safely chained to the bike rack. There are sooo many bikes in Amsterdam that I guess everyone has one and there is no need to pitch them..
As far as big cities go Mike likes this the best.
1 comment:
The scenery in your last posts looks absolutely lovely, don't think you'd ever tire of it. Very impressive. My Computer is about to kark it, new one being installed tomorrow all being well. The old one driving me nuts it's so slow. Catch ya later - xx
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