Friday, August 10, 2012

Hallo Holland and Amsterdam


Our second night in Denmark was at a quaint wee village called Tonder, right near the German border, duri­ng the day we also stopped at Ribe for a look around at the old houses.




Next day we decided enough of the rain we were heading for Holland, expecting it to take two or more days to get there, but due to the rain we just kept driving until we were over the border at a town called Zwartemeer, where we discovered a wee camp with only one other caravan camping there.  Lovely bathrooms,  a good dishwash area and a lounge with TV (not that we used that).  It was so quiet we actually slept in the next day, awaking about 9.20am.



Then we took the scenic route to Amsterdam taking in some great scenery on the way, we drove along a huge canal of about 20km.




Today we biked the 10 odd km into the city, getting lost about 4 times on the way before we consulted Simon (Tomtom).  I think we biked more like 14-15 km getting into town, lucky we got it perfectly right coming home.

We visited Anne Frank’s house, then the Dam, before wandering to the Red Light District for a look about.  It was very interesting seeing all the girls on display in the windows, the coffee shops and the sex shops.  We both think this was the best pussy in the window.



After browsing the street markets, canals and buildings, we biked to the Heineken factory for a tour and free beers.  That was an interesting experience, they didn’t make it too long and boring, we even seen some of the famous Heineken horses.







Now we are back at camp trying to plan out where to head to tomorrow.

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