Monday July 11, 2016

By: Jud Niven

Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. – from Wikipedia

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Monday was little more laid back.  We have pretty much fallen into a good sleep pattern and got up at a good time.  We took Gloria’s folks to visit her cousin Avery for his birthday.  He lives in a beautiful town called Lauren. The four Nivens decided to go to Amersfoort which is a big city not far from where we are staying. This place is like a smaller version of Amsterdam.  Lots of stores and pubs in all shapes and sizes.  Our first stop was for some lunch at bakkerij bart.  A walk in, counter service kind of bakery and sandwich shop.  LOVE the sausage rolls and the boys love the Pizza Bread, plus the free wifi from McDonalds across the street came in handy as well.

A little more walking around and some shopping then onto a canal tour of the city.  Like most places in Europe, Amersfoort is rich in history and the canal tour revealed a lot of cool facts about their Medievil roots. It was all in Dutch but the skipper of the boat spoke very good English and he was happy to translate for us. Well worth it for 5 Euros.