{"id":749,"date":"2018-10-13T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/?page_id=749"},"modified":"2023-08-26T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T23:20:15","slug":"2018-amsterdam-trip-day-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/2018-amsterdam-trip\/2018-amsterdam-trip-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Amsterdam Trip, Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friday, October 5, 2018 – we take an open-boat tour to see the canals in daylight.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Today we booked a “Blue Boat” open boat tour in a smaller boat than the usual canal cruisers. This one was open to allow us to shoot photos easily, and had a maximum passenger count of 24 – on our trip, there were only about 10 people. The boat captain was a good guide, with a dry sense of humor and an easy delivery. After the boat tour, we went to visit the Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder, a wealthy merchant house along the canal with a hidden Catholic church in the attic. Linda has more photos of that than I do, so I’ll wait for her to edit and post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some shots from our morning on the water:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t worry, this isn’t the boat we were on! There are small boats like this all along the canals in the area where we stayed, most in better shape than this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I don’t know what this is saying – but it’s certainly eye-catching. It’s on a building just a couple of blocks from our apartment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the canal bridges near our apartment in the morning hazy light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plans are being made and courses plotted out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The weather here is lovely this week, with temperatures edging into the low 70s. Flowers are everywhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This isn’t our boat either, but it looked pretty interesting to me. All aluminum, these are made in the Netherlands by CeeMag Production. I suspect they are pricey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This delightful little guy is on a tree limb in a park on our way to the tour boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And here is our boat and our captain. We shared the boat with two women who were also serious photographers, two English ladies, and a family of non-stop talkers who, I think, were very amused at all the camera clicking going on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The view from the boat before we head out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Linda is ready to go!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There is a lot of traffic along the canal, with many different types of boats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the sleepy narrow canals deep in the middle of Amsterdam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The “drunken houses” which lean because the pilings on which they are built sink unevenly. All houses in Amsterdam are built on pilings sunk deep into the mud.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, October 5, 2018 – we take an open-boat tour to see the canals in daylight. Today we booked a “Blue Boat” open boat tour in a smaller boat than the usual canal cruisers. This one was open to allow us to shoot photos easily, and had a maximum passenger count of 24 – on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":645,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions\/1643"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tosti-lane.com\/dtlblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}