Dutch Weekend

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
One of many other boats going in the wrong direction.
A Long Straight Canal
A Long Straight Canal

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.

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
Nemo, the science museum.
The central library
The central library, the Oba.
Station Centraal
Station Centraal

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.