Anne cooked an amazing breakfast of French toast stuffed with berries and yoghurt for all of us. We then got a taxi to the Hertz Rental car place and hired a car and set off to the Kinderdijk.
The Netherlands put on a stunning day for us to see the Windmills at Kinderdijk!
Back into the car and we then went to Gouda.
After wandering around gouda, we drove back to Utrecht, parked the car near Anne's apartment, then wandered into town for a beer.
Michel met us, and I was taken to this great beer place that is a
converted church. I tried a Berry Beer – it was amazing – 3 types of
berries- and the beer was red. Best beer I’ve ever had.
The boat cruise I wanted to do wasn't running that day, so instead we walked along the canal.. We even found some fungi. Kicking myself I wasn't carrying my macro lens!
At the end of the canal, we hopped onto one of the boats that was working and hitched a ride back to the visitors centre.
I got Anne, Jay and Gordon to pose for me...
Such a beautiful place...
Gouda is another very old town and very
beautiful.
We
also stopped for lunch and I ordered the eggs.
It was huge – 3 huge slices of bread, lots of cheese slices and 3
eggs. I ate the eggs and cheese and felt my arteries harden with every bite! The bread - I couldn't eat!
We stuffed ourselves trying all the cheeses too - so many cheese, so little time!
Cheese was even hanging on the power lines...
I could only fit in one though and I was getting chilly so
ordered a hot chocolate.
We then walked through Utrecht and went to a Surinam
restaurant for dinner. More Surinam
beers and beautiful food – I had a chicken satay starter only, but I was not
hungry so that’s all I could manage.
Although weakened and had some ice-cream floating in advocaat and mint
liqueur – yum!
I was having trouble keeping my eyes open so headed back
home to bed, while the others went out for a few more beers elsewhere. I was asleep before my head touched the pillow!
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