Our hotel includes breakfast.  Yeah!!  We are paying 130 euros per night.  That translates to about $195 CAD.  We must remember that we are in Amsterdam in August.  We are passing many small hotels with “All full” signs (or some other words that essentially mean the same thing).  It is clean, but TINY.  You will see when I sort out the photo issue.

 

Definitely NOT a room with a view!!  I could touch the building next door!

 

 

 

 

After breakfast this morning we walked to where we had seen a crooked little house that is now a pub.  The light wasn’t right for photos last night so we wanted to see it in the morning light.  The area was much better lit in the morning.

 

 

 

After a bit of aimless wandering we bought tickets for the Hop on Hop Off canal boat and the Van Gogh museum.  We put on about 16K using 24,350 steps according to my fitbit.  I know that some of my friends have done that before lunch, but we’ll do better without all of those slow people in front of us, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to read their cell phones.  🙂  Those guys don’t do the Camino!!

Took a tour of a diamond factory and saw an emerald cut diamond worth a million Euros!

We ended up at the little spot just a few steps from our hotel for dinner.  After walking all day I needed a rest before tackling the stairs in the hotel.  We are on the 3 rd floor (they tell us) of our hotel.  They don’t count the flight of steps up to their door or the 21 steep steps up to what they are calling  the 1st floor.  These steps are steep and narrow, from what I have heard not unlike a lot of hotels in the city.

 

 

 

This is the second flight with “Gollum” scurrying up! 🙂

 

 

It is Friday night and the town is hopping!  We are glad our hotel, while within comfortable walking distance for us, it is much quieter than it is down near the Central Station and the Red Light District.  Sleep again soon.