Países BaixosProvincie Noord-HollandGemeente AmsterdamDe Wallen52°22’21” N 4°53’59” E
28 de setembro de 2015, Países Baixos ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Arrived in Amsterdam, did a walking tour of the city and then went to Anne Frank house ( no pictures allowed and.. backpacks to be worn on your chest )
Países BaixosProvincie Noord-HollandAmsterdamNieuwe Kerk52°22’26” N 4°53’27” E
29 de setembro de 2015, Países Baixos ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Managed to squeeze in the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh museum (with guides and audio guide) in one day.
I focused on the part of the Rijksmuseum that covered the golden age of Dutch supremacy and theLeia mais
Tuan: I went to a talk about image analysis on Van Goghs. He is apparently a sloppy painter and like half of his canvas paintings have hidden paintings underneath the final one.
Bah. I didn't mean to post that 4 times. FindPenguins kept saying "something went wrong" and wouldn't update to reflect the post.
FrançaÎle-de-FranceBoulogne-Billancourt48°50’16” N 2°15’46” E 30 de setembro de 2015, França ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
After a quick look at the free bits of the Amsterdam Science Museum while waiting for the train, we headed off from Amsterdam to Paris , arrived at the airbnb pla e and found it a little meh butLeia mais
FrançaÎle-de-FranceBoulogne-Billancourt48°50’16” N 2°15’46” E
1 de outubro de 2015, França ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Spent the day in the Montmartre district of Paris which used to be it's own little town around a hill outside Paris's walls where the stuffy Parisians could go to to let their hair down , this isLeia mais
FrançaÎle-de-FranceBoulogne-Billancourt48°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
2 de outubro de 2015, França ⋅ 🌙 10 °C
The Palace of Versailles! We started with a guided tour of the Kings private apartments that are not open to the public and are even kept shut out from the sunlight, when people aren't in the rooms ,Leia mais
FrançaÎle-de-FranceBoulogne-Billancourt48°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
3 de outubro de 2015, França ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
The Louvre
We got into the Louvre via the shopping mall/ metro entrance that skips all the crowds and then used Rick Steves audio guide to do a greatest hits tour and then went to the castle ruinsLeia mais
FrançaÎle-de-FranceBoulogne-Billancourt48°50’16” N 2°15’45” E
4 de outubro de 2015, França ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Notre Dame
We went and took a walking tour of Notre Dame and the surrounding area, aside from the Cathedral itself we got to see a little neighborhood that used tombstones for staira, a police stationLeia mais
FrançaÎle-de-FranceParisParis 07 Ancien - Quartier Arcis48°51’25” N 2°21’3” E
5 de outubro de 2015, França ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We slept in a bit and headed to the Eiffel Tower after I needed to get some new shoes, our much with the weather ran out so it was quite rainy and cloudy but a decent capstone to the Paris section ofLeia mais
SuíçaKanton ZürichThalwil47°17’40” N 8°33’48” E
SuíçaLuzernTribschen47°2’39” N 8°19’16” E 8 de outubro de 2015, Suíça ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
From Thalwil we headed to Lucern, took a walk around town to see the sites, lost an umbrella, walked the 500 year old fort walls and saw the famous Lion sculpture.
