While Pete went out in search of fresh bread, Glenn and I found a small diner to have a quick breakfast:
Next up, we headed to the Anne Frank Museum. As you'd expect, it's a humbling place:
The day looked nice, so we decided to rent bikes to explore the city. However, we had to first find a bike rental place. While searching, we passed some frozen canals - which I understand is not that common in the city - which also explains all the excitement of the skaters:
We passed another open market with vendors selling typical local fare - like egg rolls:
We finally found a shop that rented typical Dutch bikes. By typical, I mean steel city bikes - nothing fancy - no carbon, no titanium, not even aluminum:
We made our way through the city and to Vondelpark, Amsterdam's central park:
Leaving the park, we stopped by an Italian cafe for a spot of coffee (real coffee) and met a local tradesman who is in the home construction industry. I was struck by how well and world informed all the people we had met had been. They knew about our government, our primary races, and our financial landscape. And this guy had a cool dog to boot:
After 3 hours of biking, we turned in our bikes and headed to our last pub - In de Wildeman ("In the Wild Man"), where we ran into a couple from the UK that we had met earlier in our trip:
The bartender was friendly and knowledgeable about beer:
But the craziest thing was running into 2 other people at the bar who grew up in Austin - a tech guy (now living in Phoenix) and a real estate agent (now living in Amsterdam):
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