Well, day 2 in Amsterdam began with a walk from our apartment to the Centraal train station where we took a cruise of the harbour and canals. It turned out to be a beautiful day as the pics show. Afterward we walked back to our apartment and along the way stopped for a beer and and a snack (fries and mayonnaise - a local delicacy!) It started to rain so we and another couple with two small children moved under a canopy. We started to talk to them and discovered they were from Vancouver. They had house-swapped with a couple from Amsterdam for 3 months. We talked some more and the Olympics came up. Turns out, the woman's mother is a figure skating judge and my co-worker, Sally Rehorick, who retired 2 yrs ago from UNB,
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