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| THE AMSTERDAM |
We had a full breakfast on the Allure and then packed our bags and moved them across the pier to the Holland, where Miranda looked after them until check-in time at 12.30. We spent the morning at the railway station trying to reserve seats and beds for our trip to Salzburg on June 26. Very frustrating. We queued up four times and finally after an hour and a half succeeded in getting seats on the Eurostar to Paris, but they refused to book our train from Paris to Munich. We were told we would have to do that in Paris. When we said we would not be in Paris before the date and it was necessary to book sleeper beds in advance we were told we should try to do it on the internet. There was a special ticket queue marked "Reservations" with the name Eurail above it, but we were told four times that that was the wrong counter to go to, but they could not explain why it was wrong. We settled into our nice cabin which would be our home for a week, then walked over to the Maritime Museum, which was full of model ships, paintings, globes, maps, figureheads, historical documents, etc. and we spent all afternoon there. The highlight was a full-scale replica of the Amsterdam, an East India Co. ship which had remarkably authentic detail inside. After a delicious three course dinner the leader took us on an 18km ride along the bike tracks of Amsterdam, leaving the ship at 8.30pm and returning at 10.30pm.
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| SMALL PORTION OF PARKED BIKES AT AMSTERDAM STATION |
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| STEIGER 5 HAD OUR HOTEL ALLURE NEXT TO OUR TOUR BARGE HOLLAND |
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