March 29:
From Belgium back to Amstelveen and home to the grandkids today. About 4 hours of driving, but the first couple of hours Jeremy guided us through pretty countryside, and then we had a nice little stop in beautiful Maastricht.
Maastricht is a mid sized city, but as typical in Europe, a very walkable old town centre, with remnants of walls, medieval gates, and in this case one of the oldest churches in the Netherlands.
From there we took the motorway toward Amstelveen… heavy traffic for the beginning of the long weekend, but fortunately a bit easier in our direction, approaching Amsterdam. It still took closer to 3 hours for what should have been a 2 hour drive.
Nice to get home to the grandkids though! Michelle (their Mom) is taking the weekend off to go to London with a friend, so we will do the kid and dog and cat care for the long weekend.
March 30 and 31:
Just “hangin” at the house in Amstelveen, bicycling into the town for some shopping at the big mall and guitar shop yesterday. Pat and I took a bike ride up the Amstel this morning a few kilometres… the same trip we did on our first day here in November. It is just the most ideal bike ride… flat and calm, with pastoral fields on one side, and the Amstel river on the other, passing occasional dike side houses, some of which are very quaint and a couple of hundred years old, along with more modern houses.
A nice walk with the dogs this evening, along the polders just a block away from the house here, as in the photos below.
Noon stopover in Limbourg:
...and our lunch
Jeremy, Nyah, Julian, Bill
Nyah's new haircut and colour.
Bicycling along the Amstel.
Evening dog walk.
Neighbourhood windmill.
Easter dinner, but he got away.
I love Nyah's new cut and colour!
ReplyDeleteThe closeup pic looked a bit like Auntie Mary or Nonie, when young.
That bike ride looks idyllic. Envy!