We arrived in Amsterdam this morning for the start of our latest trip - a riverboat cruise on the Rhine River from Amsterdam, along the French/German border, ending in Basel, Switzerland. Then we'll be driving around and exploring Germany for two weeks.
We arrived this morning to gray skies and occasional drizzles of rain. It's quite a bit colder here than the 90 degree weather we've had at home recently. Tomorrow is supposed to clear up, and be a little warmer. So the plan for tomorrow is a canal cruise and to see the floating flower market and just wander around. We may see a couple of museums tomorrow (Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum) or save them for Sunday before we board our riverboat.
We had a nice surprise - the hotel didn't have a room available of the type we reserved, so they upgraded us to a suite. A really, really large suite. It has a full bath (with sitting area), a guest bath, bedroom, huge sitting room with a dining alcove, separate kitchenette/wet bar, and a large office. It's bigger than most apartments I've seen!
The hotel building itself is 100 years old, but it's only been a hotel for a short time, it was a maritime shipping company for many decades. It's very cool because many of the maritime designs are still here, including the ticket windows on the second floor where passengers would buy their tickets for traveling on the ships. On the third floor ceiling, the whole ceiling is made up of leaded glass windows with world maps, constellations, and other navigation symbols etched into the glass.
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