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Day 2 – Arrival at our rental apartment in the Oud West neighborhood

Amsterdam was founded as a fishing village in the 1200s and got its name from the Amstel river. The canals extend for 60 miles and have more bridges than Venice (1281 versus 409).

Out for an evening stroll in search of a restaurant when we came across this charming bench a few doors down from our rental apartment.
The entry to our apartment on Jacob Van Lennepkade street. We are on the third and fourth floors.
The view from our balcony overlooking the canal.
There are 881,000 bicycles in the city which is four times the number of cars. More than half of the people cycle each day to work.
25,000 houseboats line the canals and about 15,000 bikes are pulled from the canals each year!

 

 

 

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Day 1 – Tucson to Amsterdam, via Chicago and London

Our flight from Tucson to Chicago was uneventful and we had just enough time to get a bite to eat before our departure at 8:40 pm for London. There was heightened security screening in light of the day’s news from the London Bridge. We were just changing planes so we never left the airport and our third and final flight arrived in Amsterdam at 2 p.m. to sunny skies and 65 degrees!

Waiting for our plane to depart from Chicago to London. I try to remember the sense of wonder that this little boy might have for a huge plane.
The BA 747 ready for departure. Bev and Evan were on the upper deck with just 20 seats.
Enjoying a pre-flight glass of bubbly.
Kyle had the window seat and I had the aisle for our 8 hour overnight flight to London.

The electric partition was just too much fun to play with, for kids or dads!

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Hey There Everyone!

This blog will be our way of sharing ‘Views’ i.e. photos, videos and thoughts of our ‘Voyage’ to Amsterdam, Norway and the Vienna Convention! We are looking forward to meeting those from the 8 countries invited:  Croatia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and United States.