Amsterdam, Cologne, Boppard, St Goar, Hiedelberg...

Hash Museum Hydroponics
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Trafalgar Tour Catchup...

Finally got internet access, but not really enough time to do a full catch up - so this is just from the first couple of days.

So Sunday was the day we were to catch up with our tour. Our plan was to go to the hotel we were to be staying at that night and hopefully meet up with them at some point that evening. Joeri kindly drove Yumi and I to the hotel we were to be staying at - it was a nice 5 star hotel, but not an easy one to get to with all of our luggage.

We arrived there and checked in, dumped our luggage, then headed in to Amsterdam.

First stop was the tourist info center where we learnt that the Anne Frank Museum was fully booked out that day. We decided to head to the museums first, and even though I'd been to the Rijiksmuseum before, I was more than happy to go again and thought Yumi should see it. So we wandered around there for a while admiring the Rembrandts and other pieces of artwork, then had lunch in Museum Park before we visited the Van Gogh Museum.

After leaving the Van Gogh Museum we were greeted with a flood from the heavens, it absolutely poured down with rain for about 30-40 minutes at least.

We decided to head to the Hemp and Hash Museum next, and headed off in search of that - and after getting more than a little lost we finally found our destination - on the edge of the Red Light District. The inside the Hemp Museum was very warm, and we were greeted with all sorts of hash related paraphenalia - including a view of the hydroponics lab for the place next door (Sensei Seed Bank) which is shown to the side here.

We had dinner in Amsterdam after that and headed back to the hotel to try and catch up with our tour guide.

Next day we headed to Cologne (Koln) where we got to walk around the huge The Dom church - one of the largest Gothic churches in Europe. Then we headed to the boat and headed up the Rhine River on a cruise from Boppard to St Goar. Along here we saw many castles from the Germanic "Robber Barons" where they would attack the boats going past if they didn't pay their tolls.
After that we got to spend a little time wandering around Heidelberg - a beautiful city and we climbed up to the Roman Garrison on top of the hill as it gave a wonderful view of Heidelberg below.

More later!