Our first full day in Landal

Chuck took a bike trip with Graham, in the morning, showing him the dunes in our region.  I stayed back and dutifully updated my blog :) .  After eating lunch here at our cottage, I joined in on the biking.  Our first stop was at the Keukenhof Gardens---the largest flower gardens in the world.  Beautiful and lush, we spent about an hour wandering throughout the grounds.  We, then, did further biking in and around the little towns.  In all, we travelled about 25 kilometers returning to our cottage just before 6 p.m.   
In the evening, Chuck took us to the university city of Leiden.  There was no trouble in getting there but finding a parking spot was like finding a flea on a horse.  After asking two people for directions, imagine that!, the second person, a middle age man, spent five minutes explaining the route to the closest parking lot in the centre of Leiden.  Then, the man opened the back door (to Graham and my surprise) and slid in beside Graham.  I had no idea what was going on because Chuck and this man were speaking Dutch.  "He's going to show us the way to the parking lot," explained Chuck. 
"Wow," Graham said, as the kindly gentleman closed the door as he left our car. "You could never let a guy in your car in Toronto!"  "Just remember that Graham," I said.
We found a very nice restaurant on one of the canals in town.  It was an old converted barge.  The tables were covered in white linen and that seem to sell Chuck on the idea that we would get a good meal.  Our waiter had to take our orders and then cross a very busy street to bring back our food and drinks.  It was quite the experience---one Graham did not want to ever forget and so above is a photo of Graham smiling with approval as he points to the menu on the side of the barge.