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Amsterdam

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September 15, 2025 Amsterdam Today was a walking around, looking at things, canal boat ride and geocaching day.  The weather was undecided with lots of wind.  Now that's a tiny car.  That will will have some real hard to decorate spaces.  The spire of the Westerkerk. The church was built between 1620 and 1631. Inside Westerkerk Lots of house boats on the canals. Some people really make the boats like home.  We decided to take a canal boat tour. Ed's getting ready for the tour to start.  You get a different perspective when your in a canal boat.  Unfortunately, it rained during a tour. Rain drops of the windows  made for some interesting photos. Given how old Amsterdam is, it's not surprising to find narrow winding streets.  The Royal Palace of Amsterdam. The current king and queen are Willem-Alexander and Maxima.  Central Train Station in Amsterdam. Looking across the IJ River. Amsterdam is turning 750 this year, a little older than Walk...
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Paris

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May 15, 2025 Homeward Bound Our flight was scheduled to leave at 1:40pm, so we got the airport at 10:00 am. Given how busy the airport was when we arrived on Monday, we weren't sure what to expect but it wasn't checking in and getting through the border and security in a half an hour.  We settled in for the few hours wait, then found out our flight was changed to depart at 5:00pm. It was going to be a long day! When we were on the plane, the captain explained that the plane we were scheduled to be on suffered some wing damage so they had to wait for another plane to be available. There was also a medical emergency so that put departure behind a bit more. We did arrive just after 7:00pm.  Ed and I really enjoyed Paris even though we didn't get to see everything we wanted to. The early mornings and late evenings in Africa tired us out more than I expected. Luckily, stopping in France en route to somewhere else is easy to do so we can go back and see the things we missed. Mayb...
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