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Amsterdam- France's Sin City
In a conversation with a close French friend of mine, she mentioned briefly how swarms of French men and women travel to Amsterdam seeking their own piece of sin city. Seven French roommates and one red light district later, I find myself giving the whole of Amsterdam, the green light. But before I dive into juicy details on the underground of …
The strange city of Amsterdam
One of our last stops was Amsterdam…I guess that was ideal since we were now conditioned. The city is absolutely absurd: built on about 80 small islands connected by bridges and waterways. All the buildings are tilted forward and have hooks on top to help with moving. This is required but their stairwells are very narrow and it would be …
Canals and more canals
For the second part of the trip we ventured into Amsterdam.
The city is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
There are canals everywhere, and so much green, and everyone was on bikes.
We went to the Rijks Museum, which was super interesting. In contrast from that we went to the Anne Frank House, which was super depressing but I am …
Over the waters to Amsterdam
... on board restaurants with a great steak.
The ship is not busy at all and so everywhere is nice and quiet. A quick look outside in the freezing cold, a wee dram in one of the lounges and then back to my cabin to do my blog and sleep.
Tomorrow's plans are to make it to Luxembourg and spend the night there and the next day head for Chur right in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
And that kind of concludes my first day of this winter ...
3 days in Amsterdam
... that people riding motorbikes here are doing so at very low speeds in an urban setting, on a separate roadway from the cars, not riding along major suburban arteries at 60 or 80 km/h as we would at home.
We needed a bit of a rest after our busy week in London, so we didn’t do a great deal of activity in Amsterdam. We did do the tour of the Anne Frank House, which was very moving ...