Saturday we went for our last bike ride of the trip. Anna and Cacia went in the car with Lies, and Annick joined us on the ride to Appelcha, nature reserve. We biked through beautiful countryside, stopping to see a hiding place of the Dutch resistance fighters, and to eat an apple under the trees to wait out a rain shower.
When we got home, Greg, Annick, Kris and Laura were the garden gnomes, cleaning up some of the garden, and Anna and Cacia helped Lies with dinner. After dinner we got to see Geert and Barbara, who came to visit from the Lowlands music festival in Kampen.
We had a birthday breakfast with Annick and Lies, and then with warm goodbyes, we left Diever this morning with a ride to the Meppel train station, changed trains in Almere, and arrived at Amsterdam Central at 11:30 am. We stored our bags in lockers for the day, and made our way to Museum Square to visit the Rijks museum courtyard garden, and Van Gogh Museum. I really enjoyed the permanent collections of Van Gogh paintings, but also the 1940s photographs from similar areas and subjects that Van Gogh had painted.
On our way back to collect our bags at the station, we stopped at Dam Square, where Leone found us on a webcam!
We our spending tonight and tomorrow night in a houseboat built in 1896 in the Jordaan neighbourhood (near Aniick's place). The weather forecast looks rainy for our last full day in Nederland, but... that'll just be a good excuse for warme chocolate met schlagroom!
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