Friday, July 22
Today was spent travelling from Leiden to Amsterdam. However we arrived early at our hotel so we went and did a boat ride around the canals of Amsterdam - it has been 31 years since we were last here so it was great seeing it again and getting our bearings on the main attractions.
We had arranged to meet our friends Jaap & Ageeth for dinner, and they met us at our hotel. We went for drinks across the harbour, catching a ferry for the short ride which reminded us of the Star ferries in Hong Kong. It was then back across the harbour and a walk to a Spanish restaurant called Duendo, where we enjoyed a lovely tapas meal as we reminisced about old times and caught up on more recent times. I met Jaap in the USA in 1974, and we visited he and Ageeth and Jaap's parents when we were last in Amsterdam in 1986, so we had a lot to catch up on!
Today was spent travelling from Leiden to Amsterdam. However we arrived early at our hotel so we went and did a boat ride around the canals of Amsterdam - it has been 31 years since we were last here so it was great seeing it again and getting our bearings on the main attractions.
We had arranged to meet our friends Jaap & Ageeth for dinner, and they met us at our hotel. We went for drinks across the harbour, catching a ferry for the short ride which reminded us of the Star ferries in Hong Kong. It was then back across the harbour and a walk to a Spanish restaurant called Duendo, where we enjoyed a lovely tapas meal as we reminisced about old times and caught up on more recent times. I met Jaap in the USA in 1974, and we visited he and Ageeth and Jaap's parents when we were last in Amsterdam in 1986, so we had a lot to catch up on!
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