just another morning here

Our last full day in Amsterdam so we maxed it out. Drove into Amsterdam, Steve likes the challenge of driving through foreign cities, and actually the car park cost wasn’t much different to the price of tram tickets for all five of us. We parked near the Vondelpark and walked down to the Museumplein.

Went into the Van Gogh museum and all of us really enjoyed it; the kids followed a treasure hunt trail thing which helped them get lots out of it, and they received stickers and postcards at the end so they were happy.

Had a toastie from a cafe on the Museumplein, and then popped back to the car for the scooters, and spent a couple of hours walking/scootering through the Vondelpark, again very pleasant.

After that we decided to drive up to Zaandam to see Zaanse Schans, a very touristy little village where a number of windmills have been moved. Walked round admiring windmills and a little cheese-making place, and had an ice cream there before heading back to the campsite for dinner.

Steve was determined to see yet more of the Netherlands, so drove us down into Zuid-Holland to Rotterdam. Not an altogether successful trip as we didnt’ really know where to go or what to see when we got there, but we did find a visitors’ centre in town where we learnt a little bit about Rotterdam’s history. Spotted a Transformer’s statue which amused me, not sure what its relevance was!

On the way back to Amsterdam we stopped at the Amstelpark. The children took scooters all the way down and we had ice creams, then saw the windmill and Rembrandt’s statue at the bottom. Oh, and the interesting gate (honestly, between gates and bridges Steve was well away!).