Holland - Windmills Cloggs and Dykes

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Our flight arrived into Amsterdam 5 hours before our Dutch friends', JW and Tefke, who had joined us in Istanbul, so we headed into the city for a few hours. Joy visited the Anne Frank house, seeing where her family hid from the Nazi's during WW2. Meanwhile, Scott wandered around the canals trying a local beer or two. We spent a further few hours just meandering round the old part of Amsterdam - dodging hundreds of cyclists - and viewing the "nightlife".

As we were in Holland, we had to sample the local cuisine (fries with mayonnaise!) before catching the train back to the airport. Met up with JW and Tefke and drove to their house, about an hour out of Amsterdam.

After a dutch breakfast of poffertjes (little dutch pancakes...yum!!), had a great time being shown a bit of Holland. Went for a drive along the top of a dyke, caught a ferry accross a river and went to a place where they've rellocated old buildings from all over Holland that you can walk inside and see how people lived throughout the last couple of hundred years. They had some crazy bikes that you could ride around on and we also bought lots of traditional dutch sweets - the best one was a giant piece of pink/yellow marshmallow covered in sugar!!

Raced back to the airport after our whirlwind stay in Holland then drove to the airport where we said our goodbyes and jumped on a plane to New York.

P.S. JW and Tefke - attached are our photos that prove Holland still has cloggs and windmills!!!!

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Photos

JW Tefke and Scott
Standing on a Dyke with JW and Tefke