Amsterdam to Lisbon, Day 2

 Sandy again.

We had jet lag. Fell asleep at 8 pm. Awake at 3 am. In the morning, we did not know what to do with ourselves. We discovered, to go to most museums, we have to prebuy the tickets and make an appointment. So jim make appointments for the Ryjks and the Van Gogh when we get back to from Portugal. What to do today? I looked at the map (while we were having a breakfast of Dutch Pancakes) and saw there is a "Jewish Quarter" about 3 km away and several museums there. We purchased tickets to the " Resistance " museum. By the time we walked there, did the museum then picked up our luggage to bus back to the airport.    

Off we went. The resistance museum was great - heavy but very insightful. Full of portraits and stories of people during the war - deciding whether to go along with the Nazi's or form a resistance. The Dutch had no idea how long the war would last,,,,and the Nazi rules were slow and insidious. Hard to explain in this post, but no one had hindsight of the future genocide of Auchwitz, etc. So no one at first thought the Nazi's would do what they did. It is a great little museum, but hard and heavy.

Afterwards, walked back to our hotel, collected our luggage and took the bus back to the airport. Checking in is all automated. insert your passport, it prints a luggage tag and boarding pass, put luggage in this machine, it verifies everything, and away you go...until it doesn't...print a luggage tag, which happened to Jim. So we had to wait around until someone opened the TAP kiosk. Ugghhhh.

Flight was at 7.30 pm. arrived Lisbon 10.30.  Hotel by 11pm. Good night!

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