The people at the hotel are very helpful. We got a wake-up call at 7 and got dressed to go down to breakfast. The scooter charger was green before we unplugged it. But we could NOT get it out of the room. So I called reception and asked for help. Two bellmen came up and one of them said his wife had a scooter like it. Between them they managed to get it out of the room. One of them also looked at the phone's blinking light (which indicated that we had a message even when we did not) and tried to get it to turn off. But at the end he couldn't fix it so he said - that's the way that phone is.
So we went down to breakfast. It was a buffet and my granddaughter got me two rolls with chocolate inside, scrambled eggs, and sausage links (more links than I needed but she didn't hear me say that was enough) I got water. Then she got herself more or less the same except she got juice. She didn't like the links - she said they weren't cooked enough. I wore my hat and had the plastic rain poncho in the scooter basket as it said it was going to rain And we went to meet the guide for the walking tour - this was only a couple blocks away. We were a little early.
Granddaughter waiting for tour guide
Market Wizards B.V. where we were to meet the guide
Beursplain construction
Beurs van Berlage clock tower
The first place we went was Beurspassage. The mosaic art adorning the barrel-vaulted ceiling, the chandeliers, the mirrored walls and the granite floor tell a visual story about Amsterdam and its canals, and about the relationship between humans and water.
Ceiling Beurspassage
Trilobite on floor of Beurspassage
Beurspassage fish fountain
Wall of Beurspassage
Amsterdam symbol
The guide was an American with a visa to work in the Netherlands because he had a Dutch girl friend who was an anesthesiologist. He said my granddaughter looked like his girlfriend when she was little. He gave us a nice 3 hour walking tour -
Statues on Town Hall
Neptune Frieze Royal Palace Town Hall Amsterdam with gold unicorn horns
Town Hall
De Nieuwe Kerk
Corner of the New Church
Cookie bar- free standing-not part of the church
So we went down to breakfast. It was a buffet and my granddaughter got me two rolls with chocolate inside, scrambled eggs, and sausage links (more links than I needed but she didn't hear me say that was enough) I got water. Then she got herself more or less the same except she got juice. She didn't like the links - she said they weren't cooked enough. I wore my hat and had the plastic rain poncho in the scooter basket as it said it was going to rain And we went to meet the guide for the walking tour - this was only a couple blocks away. We were a little early.
Granddaughter waiting for tour guide
Market Wizards B.V. where we were to meet the guide
Beursplain construction
Beurs van Berlage clock tower
The first place we went was Beurspassage. The mosaic art adorning the barrel-vaulted ceiling, the chandeliers, the mirrored walls and the granite floor tell a visual story about Amsterdam and its canals, and about the relationship between humans and water.
Ceiling Beurspassage
Trilobite on floor of Beurspassage
Beurspassage fish fountain
Wall of Beurspassage
Amsterdam symbol
The guide was an American with a visa to work in the Netherlands because he had a Dutch girl friend who was an anesthesiologist. He said my granddaughter looked like his girlfriend when she was little. He gave us a nice 3 hour walking tour -
Statues on Town Hall
Neptune Frieze Royal Palace Town Hall Amsterdam with gold unicorn horns
Town Hall
De Nieuwe Kerk
Corner of the New Church
Cookie bar- free standing-not part of the church
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