Saturday, February 8, 2014

Amsterdam

To celebrate being new EU citizens (and being able to leave France) we took a weekend train trip to Amsterdam. This was obviously booked well ahead of time (as soon as we got the reservation date for our cards) so we had our fingers crossed the whole visit on Friday would work out, which thankfully it did. It was kind of neat that we left on the same train from Gare du Nord that we took the first time we visited Paris together over 5 years ago.

Amsterdam is a really neat city that has far more canals than I ever realized. It's like a cross between Venice and Vienna with all the canals and architecture. We stayed on a houseboat a little bit west of the train station, in a picturesque area of the city. There were even ducks we could feed out the window!!

Our first adventure out was to a really awesome market not far from where we were staying, which not only sold all kinds of fruits, vegetables, and meats, but also clothes and toys. I picked up a super cheap belt (as mine had started falling apart) and some delicious baked goods. We then wandered around the city checking out some of the churches and various districts.

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