Cindy's European Travels 2022

NEMO Museum It is Sunday.  Beautiful blue skies and mild weather.  It feels like Victoria's weather in, can you believe it, late September.  I have a certain level of comfort knowing how to get around Amsterdam now.  Not great at directions still but I can look at the map and picture where something is.  It comes from having been near there before.  I also know do not ever ever think two places are near each other just because it looks like that on a map.  It lies.  It makes it look so simple to be able to walk along the canals and cross seven bridges at a leisurely pace.  Well let me tell you!  Those bridges aren't close together.  By the time you walk along all those canals, you'll have had to stop for a meal!  Oh and you'll start to argue with yourself about it being worthwhile.  I'm to to the point where I'm saying "Ya seen one canal and bridge, ya've seen it all!  Skip it.  Go sit your butt down!". Anyhooooo...

A 24 hour bus/tram ticket costs 8.50 Euros.  I have been here five days.  Without the I Amsterdam card, I would have paid 51.00 Euros on bus tickets.  That is almost half of what I paid for the city card which also includes free or discounted entrance to many different attractions.  When you buy the card, it is probably a good plan to read the guide that comes with it.  I should have read the brochure because it seemed that the things I had seen until yesterday, I was paying for!  That irked me to no end.  I thought buying the card gave me free entrance to what I was interested in seeing.  I had to get answers about this so off I go back to the I Amsterdam store for the FOURTH time.  I'm almost on a first name basis with the people who work there.  When I walked in, I think one of the girls may have cringed when she saw me!  I asked my question about paying for admission.  I was asked if I'd read the guide that comes with the c...