This weekend, thanks to a friend from Bristol, I did a typically Dutch thing and spent a couple of hours in the sun on a boat.
![A boat](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0524.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
![A Long Straight Canal](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0526.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
We went anti-clockwise from Brouwersgracht, up the Jordaan, past the Rijksmuseum, up the side of Museumplein, across to the Amstel, past Station Centraal then back home.
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0536.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
The Margere Brug, the “skinny bridge”. Legend has it that two sisters on either side of the canal built a bridge so that they could see each other.
![Nemo](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0537.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
![The central library](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0539.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
![Station Centraal](https://i0.wp.com/www.davehodgkinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_0541.jpeg?resize=640%2C480)
And so to home.
All in all, a lovely day even if the wind was a little nippy on the open water, despite it being a sunny 20C day. Only a little beer was consumed.