Getting the bicycle tour started

One more picture I took in Utrecht.  It's a monument of Queen Wilhelmina.  She was the queen of The Netherlands when my parents lived there.  I don't know if it's a great representation of her, she looks sort of small and bundled in this statue.

Sunday, August 7th, we moved from Utrecht to Amsterdam.  We went to the hotel where our bicycles were.  This was a train ride to Amsterdam.

Central station in Amsterdam

Central Station in Amsterdam

Canal cruises

Sunday afternoon, we decided to try out our bicycles and took a bit of a ride down the road.

Monday morning, we had our maps ready to go.  Our destination was our hotel for Monday evening, in Haarlem.  

Our first stop was to see the Anne Frank House.  We did not have tickets to tour the house, but we decided to bicycle past it.  

Anne Frank House

Streets of Amsterdam

Along the way to Haarlem 

One garden, very beautiful

A beautiful day for a bicycle ride 

St Bravo Church in Haarlem

Market in the square

Stadhuis

One of the streets in Haarlem

In honour of those who were involved in The Resistance 1940-1945.

Haarlem station taken from my hotel room

Close up of Haarlem station

Our first day of bicycling was a great day.  The weather was wonderful and the scenery was quite beautiful.  I'm thankful for this opportunity to explore this country.