Day 3 Amsterdam

We got up early this morning for our last day in Amsterdam.  We were up during the morning commute. I have heard Amsterdam is a bike-friendly town. The majority of the morning traffic seems to be bicycles. In fact, there is a several story parking garage near the train station that is for bicycles only.

Our first stop was a Catholic church hidden in the attic of a home.

Catholicism was illegal in Amsterdam for a few hundred years and so a devout Catholic built a church (with friends) in three connected homes. Amsterdam's government has always been more progressive than most so even though practicing Catholicism was illegal, the government did not enforce the rule as long as worship was done privately.

The man who built the church had 6 children and they lived in the house as well.

We then hustled over to the Museum of the Resistance that catalogued all the efforts the Dutch people made to resist the Nazi occupation during World War II -- a very sad chapter in their history.

At this point in our trip, Kate and I had walked 25 miles over three days! We were hungry and headed for lunch at a cafe by a canal. Sun! Dutch beer! Canal!

Notice the bike. There is a always a bike nearby

We had to hurry to the train station for our mid-afternoon train back to London. We rolled into the station around 7 and I had to visit King's Cross to get a picture of platform 9 3/4:

There was a long line of people who wanted to push the cart so I took someone else's picture. Have fun at Hogwarts!