We needed a
really long sleep, as we were jet lagged, and completely in a different time
zone, +9 hours to be exact.
When we
finally woke up, we needed to get down to breakfast at our scheduled time.
Here, they take Covid seriously. In the breakfast room tables are separated so
that guests need to schedule breakfast in order to accommodate everyone. We
appreciate that they take Covid seriously.
We’d thought
we would do the City Walk from Rick Steves but also thought that we could change
plans if need be. With that in mind, we picked ourselves up and started to
walk. We walked first to the train station, where the walk started and
immediately found a concert we wanted to attend, but alas, we didn’t make it
this evening.
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| A house along the walk that leans like the tower of Pisa |
From the
train station we walked down the hill, stopping to look at one thing or
another, but then we had to stop and buy Vlaamse Friets (French Fries from Vlaamse) with
mayo, something that we have loved eating in Belgium. These were just as good
and a fix since it has been forever since we were in Belgium.
After taking
a break and eating our friets we continued on the City Walk, stopping in Begijnhof.
There are associations with the Pilgrims who came to America at this church
that we found interesting. Additionally, the oldest house in Amsterdam is
located in here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformed_Church,_Amsterdam
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The Church in the Begijnhof believed to be where the Pilgrims worshiped before leaving for the New World
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We walked on,
but then Rick Steves told us to stop and take the slanty elevator up to the top
floor of a shopping mall. We did as we were told and found a wonderful 360 view
of the city. The elevator reminded us a little of one to the top of the Eiffel
Tower. There we had Irish Coffee with lots of Irish!
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| A view from the top. The tower with the globe thing is the Mint Tower |
Feeling much
relaxed we were going to continue our walk when we realized that it was nearly
5pm. We needed to go by the concert hall and just check on our tickets for tomorrow
night’s concert. So, as the walk was nearly completed, we hurried down to the
concert hall.
Having
verified how to get our tickets tomorrow night we returned to the Flower
District, on the City Walk. It was on our way back to the hotel anyway. As we
were walking along, I noticed a small, hole-in-the-wall restaurant that said
they had gluten free pancakes. Now pancakes are a really big deal here. There
are many pancake restaurants and I’d told Dale earlier that we should stop
sometime so he could get some. Well now we could both eat pancakes.
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| The Flower district |
As we were
standing outside the restaurant the owner came out and we started talking. We
told him that we were actually trying to find the herring as referenced in the guide.
He pointed out the herring stand, and explained that we needed to come in the
morning when the herring stand is open with fresh herring. We said that we’d
walk around and come back for pancakes.
We came back
to the Pancake Company, after walking around the canal. The owner made us
special pancakes, little dollar size ones with fresh fruit, ice cream and
whipped cream. OMG!!!!! We must go back.
We were very
proud of our diet today! Potatoes (friets), dairy products (Irish Coffee with
lots whipped cream), dairy products in the form of whipped cream and ice cream
and fruit with our pancakes. Dairy products include lots of calcium, protein
and the all-essential trace minerals plus fresh fruit. Good thing we don’t eat
like this at home every day. But on the plus side, we did walk over 5 miles
today, so we hopefully, walked off all of the fat, or some of it.
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