Events

After dad had driven at the speed limit for over 2 and half hours, (it was toll'ed ie tickected lol) we arrived about 1pm, the weather was gorgous.

we checked in to find we have a swimming pool, jaquisy and suna for our use, just what the doc ordered.

Not much to add as we have a long trip tomo to Limousin (the south of France) and its a five hour drive, We are having fun and the weather is getting better.

It was a early start to a bright warmish day, we decided to visit a small town called Enthach it was a smallish town.
There was lots there but non of it was in english so we went and found the roman temple, well what was left of it.
Again not in english but we had spoken to them and had our own personal guided tour of the roman site.

On the way home we took a detour and found an old castle in Beaumont, so we played at at climbing towers and looking over big drops (Knackering lol, but fun). while doing this it decided to rain again.

We had another early start so it was'nt a long day.
ps satrting to get a tan

After an uneventful drive in the rain, oops car went to 110 mph when it dired, we found our hotel in Kopstel. Wikked little family place in the middle of the forest. Nice enough, people were lovely but was kind of quaint with bits just not quite working properly.
Went into Luxembourg with no knowledge of the place at all (typical english). Found millions of bloody steps and hills which is surprising as it's on the top of a mountain-ish hill. Played at tourests and went deep into the depths of the castle, 34meters of steps down and bloody loads more up. Learned about the city and its history, which was interesting and ended up on a little road train that took us around. If you're fit (I am so not) then you must walk around the walls as they yare monumental.
The people are really nice and friendly. They are switched on and have people walking around in yellow coats as tour helpers, you can ask them almost anything (including the good bars) and they will help. How come we don't think of these things in England).
Basically uneventful and touresty day. They are about to have a festival and there was a lot of music anad dancing around the place. shops were high dem and expensive and the place is absolutely crammed with restaurants - I forgot to add that about Amsterdam as there you caan eat in restauraants from anywhere in the worls, and I mean literally anywhere.

Awake and refreshed we headed into Amsterdam (apoligies for slurred writing as teeny bit tiddly at this time). Went window shopping, you so wouldn't believe what was in the windows! Didn't buy of course, but hmmm interesting, and actually not as exciting as you would think.
Went to Ann Franks house, a must for any traveller. It's fantastic, superbly put together and I can't praise it enough for thought and content. Both of us learned things. After this and a bite to eat we went to go on a canal cruise. We ran through the rain (bloody heavy), paid 6 Euro and climbed on the canal boat. We then got off the boat, got our money back and looked for the real tourest cruise as we had actually got on a water bus. We eventually found the cruise and spent an hour seeing the sights. I reccommend this action to anyone, and if with a female (or should I say partner to be politically correct) go on the cruise with drinks or meal as they appear romantic and fun.
As we were getting off the boat, a young lady with exceptionally large floatation aids (in case she fell in the canal) asked me if I was stiff as I was stretching. I explained to her that what she said was not the best english and that someone, unlike myself, may construe her question wrongly.
We returned to the city after a wash and brush up and being hungry found a weird chineese restaurant where the portions were massive (well all portions are huge here) and where all the staff and family sat on the table next to us and had a meal themselves. At least the food must have been ok if they ate it.
Post this, and Neil being hungry still, I bought him some cake in the buldon bar. For some reason he became light headed and talked utter crap. He also blamed the walls for being in the wrong place as an excuse fr loosing at pool. At least he didn't fall over, as I did the day before, although I did have to rescue him from the tram as I don't think he realised that they were bigger and faster than he was.