Wednesday, July 29, 2009

On a canal in Amsterdam

Shiloh and I hopped on a 75-year-old shallow steel (yes, steel - or so
we were told by our charming captain) boat for a 90-minute float
around Amsterdam. We had heard about a group of locals who offer such
trips for donations as a way to raise money for preserving such boats.
That sounded far more fun that an expensive trip on the large tourist-
jammed cartons that sail the waterways.

This picture was taken as we neared an extremely low bridge. To our
delight (the 8 or 10 visitors aboard) and the guide's amusement, we
all got down on our knees to duck and laugh.

After we got through the bridge, he announced that there was nothing
remotely interesting on the other side and that we would need to
immediately turn around and go back the way we came. :-)

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