3 hours (or less) from Paris: Amsterdam #2

Above: a floating tulip garden; an early café créme on a quiet square; anyone for chess?

Below: no visit to Amsterdam is complete without feasting on rijsttafel (traditional Indonesian multi-dish "rice table"), sampling Dutch cheeses at a street market or hopping on a bicycle....

 

 

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PARIS - AMSTERDAM  

 

Several direct flights daily

Total flight time: 1 hour 20 minutes

By train: Thalys from Paris Gare du Nord - 27 trains per day

[shortest travel time: 3 hours 17 minutes direct into Amsterdam Centraal]

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3 hours (or less) from Paris: Amsterdam #1

Going Dutch.

 Though I'd been to "The Venice of the North" several times over the years, this visit was particularly magnifique.

 

 Invited to join a dear friend and with the weather on our side, we hit some of the best spots in the city, and revisited old ones, from museums and art exhibitions to restaurants, bars, markets, and more.

Below: canal and bridges from a boat

Bride on a bridge

A photographer readies the bride before posing the couple.

Black storefront

Bare trees lining the quai are reflected in windows of an antique shop facing the Louis-Philippe bridge.

Castle on the Seine

A section of the medieval castle the Conciergerie as seen from a nearby bridge.

l'Écluse

A boat makes its way up the Canal Saint Martin lock by lock, as seen from one of the bridges.