Amsterdam was fantastic. It's a really lovely place to visit.
(Although I may be biased, because I'm firmly convinced Amsterdam is full of Livredor, like Stockholm, and full of sunshine and spontaneously helpful passers-by, like Glasgow, and I'm reliably assured all six assertions were my good fortune rather than a reliable characterisation :))
* On Friday, I flew out from Stansted to Amsterdam Schiphol, and the journey was all fine and easy, the plane pleasant (as much as you could hope for a <1 hour journey), and the weather sunny.
* Amsterdam trams are nice and convenient for tourists, if you find a map and buy a 48-hour ticket. (It should be stamped the first time you enter a tram and ignored thereafter, iirc.)
* We headed back to the hotel to snuggle up and recover from the flight, and then wandered out through Amsterdam to find one of the vegetarian restaurants. I really, really love being in a city where quite literally every other road in both directions is along a canal. It's every so pretty to see.
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(Although I may be biased, because I'm firmly convinced Amsterdam is full of Livredor, like Stockholm, and full of sunshine and spontaneously helpful passers-by, like Glasgow, and I'm reliably assured all six assertions were my good fortune rather than a reliable characterisation :))
* On Friday, I flew out from Stansted to Amsterdam Schiphol, and the journey was all fine and easy, the plane pleasant (as much as you could hope for a <1 hour journey), and the weather sunny.
* Amsterdam trams are nice and convenient for tourists, if you find a map and buy a 48-hour ticket. (It should be stamped the first time you enter a tram and ignored thereafter, iirc.)
* We headed back to the hotel to snuggle up and recover from the flight, and then wandered out through Amsterdam to find one of the vegetarian restaurants. I really, really love being in a city where quite literally every other road in both directions is along a canal. It's every so pretty to see.
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