Friday, July 15, 2005

Day 4 again

Will try again. My time ran out and I lost my post. No grammar allowed anymore;-) good flight, got to hotel okay, problem with room, but fixed. 6am start next day... think I left my hat there:-( will find out later. Ferry to Calais twice as long due to fog, so only saw teeny bit of Dover cliffs. Drove to Belgium, then Netherlands. Got picture of Dutch McDonald's;-) Hotel first, then find dinner in Amsterdam, then canal cruise. Great views and pictures. Red light district walking tour. Fairly boring... like Victoria's Secret show at night:-) Then hotel for not enough sleep. Good breakfast today. Into town. Walked to Rijksmuseum. Got in free for some reason... museum having an anniversary? Neat stuff, but smaller than I expected. Tram to Anne Frank's House. Really long line but got pictures. Ate waffles. Yummy! Dashed back to bus, which was late:-( On the road into Germany. Stopped at truck stop. You get very clean automatic washrooms for 0.50:-) Stuck in a "shtall" for 45 minutes on the autobahn, but finally at St. Goar for dinnner. Some pics of castles and grape vines on the way. Dinner okay. Sauerbraten with spaetzle and Black forest cake. Wilkommen to Deutschland! :-) Will be leaving for hotel in 25 minutes. Hope to get more sleep tonight. Tomorrow we will see beer steins and head into Munich for 1 night, then on to Vienna. That's it for now. Stay tuned. Auf wiedershein.