The last day in Amsterdam.

Rembrandt painted nearly 100 self-portraits in his career and it shows in his paintings, nearly half of his figures look uncannily like himself, I cut short my viewing of the Rembrant galleries and toured the rest of the Rijksmuseum, there are some fascinating paintings which made up for my disappointment with Mr Puddingface.

I also visited the largest indoor antiques market in Amsterdam, interesting, if I could get the prices they are asking for my old tutt I would be very well off. Needless to say I did not buy anything and headed off for an interesting canal-boat tour in a refurbished lifeboat which served the largest gin and tonic I have ever seen - brilliant, and the trip was good as well.

Cheers

The day finished with a return to my favourite Italian restaurant where I was welcomed as an old respected customer, it does not take long for people to get to know you here, which is nice.

Well another adventure nearly over just waiting for my flight back to Heathrow, then I am having five weeks off.