Amsterdam at last

Friday: Drove to Amsterdam. In the Netherlands, every toilet we found was a pay toilet, except for the one at a gas station, where they charged for the toilet paper! Got into Amsterdam city this time, crossed the river and parked near Central Station. There was some rain and cold wind, but it was OK. we walked about, looking at stores and sex shops. I though it was a bit odd that the sex shops were right next door to the family-friendly McDonald's.

And nearby we watched some guys get arrested for drugs. Drugs are legal here but there are still rules, and you really don't want to break them because the police take those rules very seriously. We stopped in some souvenir shops and bought 2 Delft-type tiles for our kitchen walls at home and some wooden shoes. Randy bought some kind of fish sandwich and chocolate milk; it wasn't really milk but we weren't sure what it was, probably a yogurt blend. We bought pastry and soda for lunch, which was pretty good. Of course we got in another traffic jam when we left the Netherlands. We had dinner with Jim at what the Americans call the "Dead Llama" - that's not the restaurant name, of course - I think the real name was Delorna Zona. Randy got some wienserschitzel while I had Cordon Bleu. And as always, back at the apartment we had tea before going to bed.