We had quite the busy day yesterday with a walking tour of Edam and Volendam in the morning and then a cycling tour of Horne in the afternoon. All the small cities are now all starting to run into together and although very quaint and lovely to see, it is hard to keep in your mind which one is which!! Last night they walked us to a church where we had a typical Dutch dinner with the locals. We sat at tables of eight and at each table was a local resident who answered questions or told us what it was like to live here. It was a nice ending to the day and then we boarded the ship and through the night the ship was on its way to Amsterdam. Today we finally get to see Keukenhof Gardens – the highlight of the trip for us! I am going to post a few pictures here and hopefully get this sent off before we leave this morning.
This is the local church in Edam. It really is only half a church as they couldn’t afford the upkeep, so they demolished the back half of the church!
Interesting little home with gable frontages.
Eating a Belgium waffle with cheeries and cream!! Could not resist!
These were the choices of waffles!! Very hard to make a decision!
I had to take a picture of this fish store – I know my brother, Roy, would have been eating all the mussels and cockles and eel! Not our thing for sure but amazing the amount of people eating this!
On our bike ride, we finally came across a Tulip field!! Beautiful!
At our dinner tonight the waiter dropped a whole tray of drinks on Brian and the local resident sitting with us!! I felt sorry for the waiter, he felt so bad. They moved us to another table. We all had a good laugh though!
Our table of eight after being moved to a new table!
Cheers Roy!! Brian tried the local beer!
Well, we are off to Keukenhof soon, I hope I can get this posted before we leave!
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