On Tuesday we boarded the Thalys train early in the morning with an eye on spending the day in Amsterdam. Luckily as holders of a Eurail Flexi Pass, it was extremely easy to take a quick day trip to the famous canal city of the Netherlands. It was my first visit to Amsterdam and what struck me most was how picturesque and quintessentially European it is in real life. Walking through the city with church bells ringing and canal boats drifting past was a scene out of a novel but we were the main characters.
