After Zaanse Schans we went on a canal tour of Amsterdam. It was quite amazing to see the contrasts of modernity and the Old World. You'd see huge parcades full of bikes, literally thousands of them, sandwiched between buildings that dated back to 1650.

According to the tour, this is the famous Ann Frank House. It was in this house that she and the others hide for so many months during World War II, and where she wrote her now famous journals.