Day 4 - 13.12.2025 - Day trip to Amsterdam

We were up and ready to go by 0900, so off we went to Amsterdam with the intention of parking adjacent to a park near the city centre.
With a quick charge on the way in at a Tesla Supercharger.
When we arrived, we found plenty of on-street parking, but could we find a parking meter.... anywhere? Could we f***!
So a quick search on a parking app I had found last night called ParkBee, found us an underground secure parking for 24 cars nearby for only €14.85 for 5 hours.
Got there in 5 mins, opened the gates from the app, parked up and walked out, shutting the gate behind us (again - from the app) - so cool!
Then we walked along the Amstel River into Amsterdam Central, past all the house boats and the locks that make the dam on the Amstel (hence Amsterdam - apparently).
We visited a bakery then headed into the oldest part of the city...
We headed into Chinatown and found a little restaurant called New King where I tried mutton - it was delicious - Marie had noodles with everything on top!
Then we headed towards Anne Frank's house and inadvertently passed through the heart of the red-light district - they really have red lights and scantily-clad women in the windows - lots of them!!! Didn't know where to look!
The Anne Frank house is the one in the middle with 9 windows in a 3x3 grid.
By this point we had walked miles and started heading back to the car. That's when we looked up the best route on Google maps and realised we had a 3 mile walk back!!
After a mile we realised we weren't going to make it to the parking in time! So I had to speed walk back, get the car (with less than 2 minutes left on the ticket), then drive back into the centre to pick up Marie!
A 45 minute drive back to the AirBnB and get ready for leaving tomorrow. We got back in time to see the mist start to roll in...

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