Dutch breakfast and trip to Amsterdam

Every morning Cobus and Janny set out a delicious breakfast array. From left to right you can see - glass jar of granola, gingerbread tasting breakfast cake, homemade strawberry-red currant jam, applestroop (deep brown apple molasses spread), biscuits in blue can and brown bread. And that's not all...

Cow and goat cheese, tomatoes, chocolate sprinkles, yogurt, butter, milk and tea. Many of these are familiar but not in this way on the breakfast table.

Its so much better than the plain bowl of cereal or fried egg that We have at home.

After breakfast today we left Cobus and Janny - taking the train to Amsterdam.

Arrived in Amsterdam around 2:00 - the city felt huge and confusing at first. We found our way to our lovely studio apartment near Vondelpark.

Here we are on our balcony. Note all the bikes parked along the street.

Here are the boys in their new Holland jackets. Ben notes the jackets make us look like tourists here but we'll look like world travelers when we wear them at home.