I woke up early to watch the Timbers game on the computer. The game was supposed to start at 4:30, but when I turned it on it was half time. It was just as well as they had played terribly and were down 2-0. I almost went back to bed, in addition to them being behind it was pretty chilly in François. I gave them a few minutes and they played themselves back into the game and eventually tied it up. But being the Timbers they gave up a bad goal at the end of the game to lose. I crawled back into bed to get another hours sleep. But, when I woke up it was 9:30. I thought I must have been more tired than I thought as that is really a late wake up for me.
After Ton and I got going we decided to head into Amsterdam to take in the sites. Ton had picked out a small pub in one of the neighborhoods near the train station that specialized in Dutch beers so we headed there first.
When we got to the pub, we noticed one of the bartenders was changing the time on all of the clocks in the pub. That’s when it hit us, today was the day to spring forward in Europe, which explained why we “slept in”, and I had missed the first half of the game.
We noticed that the Danish Brewery Mikkeller had an outpost in Amsterdam. We had visited their San Diego location, and for a short time they had one in Portland, and since we did not have a very solid plan for the day we decided to head over to Mikkellers for a beer.
After Mikkellers we were a little hungry so we headed over to a food hall nearby that is on the tourist trail. We took a slow pass thru it to see if anything tempted us, but in the end none of the cool places in the hall struck our fancy and we ended up in a little Donner Kebab shop on the main street. Sometimes the best food is cheap and simple. Well fed, we headed back to François and arrived home just as a big thunderstorm rolled thru Amsterdam.