Day 14

Today involved a bit of shopping. I guess you can't stay in a city without doing at least a little. One thing Sandra looked at was a collapsible bike. They're really cheap here. Not surprising considering the Netherlands is the flattest place on Earth, and practically every man and his dog has a bike. But no, we didn't buy one.

We also continued the hunt for Megatron. Although the selection of Transformers in the stored was very small here for some reason. So sadly, no dice. We consoled ourselves with Frikandels.

The next stage of the day took us to Kinderdijk. This place has heaps of windmills. It looks pretty cool.

We took a boat tour down the canal, and dad met this guy who was also from Hobart. Small world.

Ineke drove us around to some other toy shops afterwards. That was slightly unpleasant as it was lots of smallish streets with stops and starts, which aren't very good if you're prone to car sickness...

We later went to a Chinese Restaurant for a thank you dinner to mum's cousin. This place was cool. It looks like a buffet, which at first made me think less of the place (as most buffets I've been to were pretty average). But the food here was really good, go Dutch Chinese! The cool part was that you could choose the ingredients you wanted, give them to a chef, and he'd wok them for you with a sauce of your choice. Brilliant.

Another highlight of the dinner was that I got to burn down the road again with the scooter to get there. Even though it was only a ripping 25 k/h, it made me miss the bike.

Unfortunately it started raining on the way up - luckily I was wearing a rain coat but that still didn't stop my pants from getting wet. And thus was our last night in Rotterdam.