Another busy day with many miles under our belts. We started out in the morning by walking to Centraal to get tickets for tomorrow's bus trip and since we had a couple of hours to kill we walked and walked seeing some very different areas of this city.
After a quick trip back to our place to wash some clothes we headed over to Mike's Bicycle shop for our 3 hour bike ride. Now our tour guide swears her name is Mike and I guess I'll believe her. See the photos below of our great ride. Early on in our adventure half of us got totally separated and I was able to find the guide again. She put on a big show that in 12 years no lost people had ever found their way back to the group and I was the first one ever, Don't know if she was pulling my leg but I got a nice round of applause and a bicycle bell was my eventual reward (nice!). "Mike" was an awesome guide and a great character.
The bike tour ended at about 3:30 and by 4:30 we were inside the Van Gogh museum. I'll be honest. I was looking forward to the museum as Van Gogh has made a tremendous impact in the art world but as we looked at a huge body of his work I realized that while I like some of his paintings (alot!)the vast majority of them leave me cold. There are a few that are amazing like The Harvest and his self portraits but it is also true he did crappy work as well. Still I am glad we went.
We spent another hour walking around before eating some typical Netherland fries and then getting back to our place to enjoy more wine,cheese and bread. I imagine tonight will be an early one as we are up at 0730 for breakfast,then onto a bus
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