Amsterdam Day 1
September 28, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌙 11 °CArrived 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 )
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 )
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 butRead more
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 isRead more
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 ,Read more
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 ruinsRead more
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 stationRead more
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 ofRead more
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.