Canal day

A sunny day on an Amsterdam canal: tall, narrow canal houses lean over the water, and the quays are full of people.

What you’ll see

• Canal houses with step, neck, bell and spout gables
• Houseboats moored along brick quays
• Elm trees, bikes, lamp posts and the little red-brown bollards
• Arched brick bridges strung with lights
• A crowd that cheers as you pass

Rowing here

Every stroke on your rower moves your boat. Canal day has its own music for warming up, racing and the final sprint, and every workout works here, from a 500 m sprint to half an hour of steady rowing. You race three pacers, and your own best row comes back as a ghost.

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