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Here's the itinerary for this trip. |
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Here's the street outside our hotel in Amsterdam. |
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Just a cool looking old building |
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Amsterdam is the city of bicycles. I have never seen so many. |
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See that "parking" structure? It's nothing but bicycles. |
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Another view |
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The canal tour boats. There are numerous canals in Amsterdam. |
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The next images are taken from our boat ride on one of these canal boats. |
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Another look at the bike park. |
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Near as I can tell from looking online, overhoeks is a residence complex. |
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The Central station. VERY busy train station. Ad more bicycles outside |
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Ferry boat dropping folks off at the central station |
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MORE bicycles |
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It's a big port. More photos of the port later on |
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Not positive what this boat is, but low and long. |
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The Music building (concert hall) |
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Nemo science museum. |
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Lots of different architecture in Amsterdam |
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Another view of the Nemo science museum with the replica of the ship Amsterdam out front |
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The entrance to the canal |
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One of the MANY "house barges" that are throughout Amsterdam canals. |
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Lots and lots of low bridges |
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Look back where we came from. Nemo in the background |
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More homes on the water |
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Another canal boat docking area. Busy intersection |
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An interesting lift bridge |
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Fortunately, the boat didn't stop here otherwise Patty would have gone crazy. |
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A very pretty place |
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The yellow thing below was a temporary barge setup where they had just held a concert. Pretty cool. Just float in the pieces and instant music stage. |
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One of my favorite homes on the water. |
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The dome is part of our hotel. |
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The long building in the background is the central train station. |
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The bikes are not fancy, just functional |
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Patty taking charge in the street |
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Another typical bike. Notice the generator light. They all have generator lights |
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A quaint little novelty store |
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When we arrived at the pier, we checked in and the person at the counter mentioned our room number and it wasn't the room we had booked. But I recognized it was a BETTER room number. Whoo Hoo. Here is the brochure floorplan. |
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Here we are outside our cabin. #040 aboard the Prinsendam |
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Here's the room looking left |
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Looking right |
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Further right back toward the door |
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and the rest of the way around. Walk-in closet to the left of the entry door, bath to the right of the mirror. |
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Full size tub/shower and lovely sink area |
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This is taken from inside the separate commode room looking into the main bath area. |
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One side of our verandah. |
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Looking the other way on our verandah. |
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Nemo as viewed from our ship balcony |
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Office buildings line the pier. |
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Century heading out before us |
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Commuter trains of all kinds |
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Another long and low ship |
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See you later Century |
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A tug waiting to see if we need help |
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The cruise terminal |
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On our way |
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Another view of the concert hall |
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I have NO idea why we didn't hit something on the way out. Boats every which way. |
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Beep Beep, out the way! |
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Water view of the central station |
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Our hotel event center again |
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The whole building appears to have been built on piers driven in the water. |
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Wind generators EVERYWHERE |
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One of the drydocks |
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Some of these are huge. |
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A fast ferry hydrofoil |
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A sucking machine. Dredges the bottom by vacuuming it up. |