This morning, bright and early, MY Jane and I had breakfast and headed with a Scenic bus to a nearby location Zaanse Schans just outside Amsterdam where we had the opportunity to see some actual working windmills and a wooden shoe manufacturing shop.
The weather, according to our guide, is the best today that it has been in the last week. So the pictures we took were reflected perfectly in the mirror like water.
We learned that much of the surrounding reclaimed land was three metres below sea level and that several of the small windmills were used to pump the water into the main canal to the sea.
We spent about an hour there and bought a couple of souvenirs from a well stocked inventory.
After that tour, we went to a small unesco heritage town of Edam where we had a brief walking tour of the town.
We then returned to the Ruby and shortly after, we departed Amsterdam to begin our journey.
Not long after departure, there was a safety drill conducted by the captain.
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