Good bye to HAMBURG & Germany…. Hello AMSTERDAM!

For our final dinner in Hamburg, we went to a Pizza place called 'Einsteins'…. This is a very old building that used to produce propellers for boats in the late 1800’s.  Much to our surprise, the waitress’s suggestion of ordering a SALMON & HONEY pizza (I guess, kind of a ‘Winnie the Poo’ Pizza?) turned out to be extraordinary!  Now we have to MAKE it back in the states, b/c, its NOT something one finds on menus in the states.  For our last morning in Hamburg, we ventured out (AT 530 AM!) to their famous FishMarket.  There, they sell (with considerable enthusiasm) not only fish, but plants, vegetables and many other items…. STARTING AT 530 am on a Sunday Morning!  The place was absolutely PACKED full of people at that hour- and there were live bands playing and beer being poured…. And many people dancing, again, at 530 am on a Sunday morning!  >>>Off to the Netherlands...Arriving in Amsterdam, one immediately recognizes their Electric Car charging stations (shown in one pic.)  These peoples are very fond of their bike riding, and you REALLY need to watch out for them b/c they are NOT looking out for you.  We rented a couple of bikes for a morning ride around one of their sizable beautiful city parks (shown is a shot of our bikes next to a stop by the lake.); other photos include: Ilea posing in front of the famous “I Amsterdam” icon at the Museum Plaza;  the MANY MANY bikes parked near our hotel (there were THREE levels of bikes parked there!); another shows one of the many wonderful canals in Amsterdam (looks a bit like Venice); then, there is the shot of the statue of Hermes & Aphrodites (legend has it she wanted him so bad, that when she saw him taking a bath in the lake, she literally jumped him, and hung on to him with all her might hoping that they could become ONE, and…. Well, to his horror, THEY DID become ONE – hence the term HERMAPHRODITE, meaning to have both male & female ‘parts’); lastly, there are a couple of shots of us at the world’s largest concentration of WINDMILLS (Ilea tried on a pair of wooden shoes while we visited.)