Anne Frank and Amstel River
Everyone shuffles round slowly reading various extracts from Anne’s diary and going through each room, including the hiding annex. Gives you a completely new perspective on life to see it all. Hard to feel what it was like at the time during the Nazi occupation? Tried to find an English copy of the diary but they had totally sold out!
Got the wrong bill during lunch in an outside café. Had to rectify that and get some money back. Probably a genuine mistake but when you are foreigners you sometimes wonder if it is deliberate. Given the different money, i.e. Euros and not Pounds many people would possibly not think since you just do not on holiday!
The afternoon was spent wandering the streets again and a boat ride round the canals. Most of the walking though was due to trying to find the actual boat berths. They were nowhere to be found. We just used the philosophy of following a boat trail back along the canals and eventually finding somewhere based on the Amstel.
It is an unbelievably pleasant city to be in.
