This morning we are getting ready to explore Paris again, day 2. It was mentally exhausting yesterday with high maintenance parents after 18-day holiday (too long for self-planning) but I will keep up. Yesterday after a brief breakfast at the AirBNB house at Rue de Rosiers, Le Marais district, we stroll around to Hotel De Ville, the modern art museum George Pompidou, then proceed to Louvre, passing Jardin Nelson Mandela (a beautiful square garden with majestic church and the circular building of Bourses), then stroll across Seine river thru Pont Royal to Musee D'Orsay and Boulevard St. Germaine. We waited for Henry to catch up on a bench near La Defense, the boulevard was almost deserted on a Sunday and the fact is that it was a long weekend with the Feast of Assumption today on Monday Aug 15. We finished after a lunch at St Germaine Café (a great lunch with superb tuna steak and vegetable side, pork medallion, and a huge mussel dish) then stroll under a hot summer sun across Invalides and Eiffel Tower at Jardine.
Well I was planning to post about Amsterdam. We arrived after an overnight train from Prague, we caught the train at Duisburg after a long-transit which we spent on a café over croissant and caffe. We arrived around noon under a rainy and wet weather. The place we stayed is over 10-mins bus ride on bus 21 / tram 10 at Van Bossestraat road at Westerwerk neighbood to the west of the canal. We had lunch at Café Restaurant Amsterdam at the old gas station, now a stylish concept, where we had a taste of Amsterdam bitterballen and etc. We then walk around the city, I like Amsterdam. The city is orderly with lots of biker and relaxed, friendly, but efficient attitude.
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| Amsterdam Central train station |
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| I Amsterdam sign Museumplein |
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| Windmill |
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| Lunch at Café Loetje Museumplein, Loetje burger veal croquettes |
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| And Steak Bali |
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| Cheese wheels at Albert Cuyp street market |
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| Posing near Heineken Brewery |
