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Dirk and John watching the parade
Resting in the park after the parade The five of us went to dinner and then Dirk and Frank headed for home.  - Later John, Bill and Larry went out to check out all of the parties. - The streets of Amsterdam are normally full of activity at night, but - that night there were lots of special Pride celebration parties going on. Sunday, August 8: -  - We went by subway to Hans and Wolf's for brunch. We met Jim, a friend and neighbor who came over to see us. -  - At about 5 we headed back to John's. We had dinner with John and then walked around the area for a while.  As we walked we realized that we pretty well had covered Amsterdam over the past few days. It was time to head out to new adventures.  Jim, Hans and Wolf Another shot on the patio
Close up of Wolf as we wait for the subway Hans as we wait for the subway Monday, August 9: -  - We left John's at about 8 o'clock, walked a few blocks, then caught the tram to Alamo Rental Car. They had our reservation all set, but didn't have the car we had requested... a full size with automatic and air conditioning. The girl asked, 'Do you really need an automatic?' I said yes. A few minutes later our car was ready... much bigger and better than what we had asked for.. a Volvo S60. It was a nice car, it was comfortable and handled well, but we're sure it drank a lot more gas than a smaller car would have. We had no trouble with it for the entire trip. -  - We headed for Germany.  Steffen said it would take about 2 and a half hours to get to Aachen and he'd have lunch ready when we arrived. We were right on schedule when we drove up to Steffen's front door. -  - After lunch (pasta) and a quick visit, Steffen dropped us off in downtown Aachen on his way back to work. We spent the afternoon looking around the city, including a nice walk in one of the city parks. -  - Steffen met us at 5.  We had dinner and looked around the city some more.  We then took a drive to a park where the borders of Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium meet, then took a look at their controversial city hospital followed by a night time view of the city. Beautiful meeting room in Aachen's rathaus (town hall), a 14th century building A closer view of the wall mural

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