Ah, Amsterdam weather. We arrived from a wonderful sunny cafe into the standard August drizzle of Amsterdam. We caught up with four friends and had a great afternoon boating around the canals with them. The canals are beautiful when walking along them, but even more so when motoring along in a small boat. Even though the group wasn’t hungry, we ended up going to a ‘boat-through’ Pizza joint. This consisted of a window facing the canal that you boat up to and a short conversation with a guy and after about 15 minutes you get a piping hot pizza. This combined with a picnic selection that our friends brought with us, a few bottles of wine and some fine aged Dutch cheeses (in particular a 55-month aged goat blue cheese, Wow!), it was a great afternoon.
Two of our friends are living in Amsterdam and are renting a cute apartment and brought their 2 cats there. One cat is a rotund cat and we picked up the phrase from the neighbor, “It’s not like a Dutch cat!” , which for some bizarre reason amused us and still does. I think mostly because one of our past cats, Casey, would have gained the same distinction.
Other than that we didn’t do much sightseeing, but we did have a few afternoons sitting by the canals and rented bikes with the highlight being a fine late afternoon pedal through one of the parks, and a lowlight, being a ride home in a torrential rain storm at midnight.
