From Paris to Amsterdam

We woke up in Paris, and I ate a lemon tart before we left for the train station. The train took about two hours 

The Amsterdam train station center.
 We took a taxi from the train station to our hotel wich we just dropped off our luggage, before immediately heading off to the Ann Frank House. In the Ann Frank House, we were not allowed to take pictures so you'll have to see the house itself to know what the inside looks like. Then we walked home and ate along the way.
Half of my club sandwich that I ate for lunch.

While we walked back to our hotel we walked across the canals.

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  1. Kerri LoriganApril 25, 2017 at 4:23 PM

    So beautiful! I've only been to Amsterdam in the winter -- your photo makes me think that I need to return in warmer weather.

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  2. RogerApril 25, 2017 at 11:58 PM

    Charlie, I see that you and Baba visited the Anne Frank house. There are earlier links between New England and Amsterdam. When the Pilgrims left England, they didn't go directly to the New World. They spent about a year in Amsterdam, and then moved to another Dutch city, Leiden. It was from Leiden that they sailed to Plymouth. Another NE-Amsterdam connection took the form of John Adams. Adams lived in Amsterdam from 1780 to 1982, where he drummed up support for the new country, America, among Amsterdam's political and financial elite. The Netherlands was the second country, after France, to recognize America. Another famous Jew besides Anne Frank who lived in Amsterdam was the great philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza, a lens maker by trade, was a great thinker and a nice guy, but some of his beliefs angered the religious authorities, Jew and gentile alike. The one that really ticked them off was Spinoza's belief that the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, weren't written by Moses. So Spinoza left Amsterdam. You've heard of the No Spin Zone? After Spinoza left, the rabbis declared Amsterdam the No Spinoza Zone.

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