France and Netherland

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We had our late lunch in a bar, just because they offered a pedal of interesting beer. Four beer of the same brand with different flavours and alcohol.

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That finished the part in France. The next day we took a morning train from Gare du Nord to Amsterdam. The train took 3 hours and I highly recommend taking first class train. The train offers breakfast, drinks, spacious seat with full wifi access. As our hotel was close to Amsterdam airport, we left the train at Schipol and went to the hotel by hotel shuttle. Below are our hotel pictures.

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We only had a half day after we checked in, we decided to go to Keukenhof to see tulips. This is a theme park actually. It opens only from March to May every year.

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The park has different houses. On the way we went to the first house, the path has already had a lot of tulips.

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The first house we visited was a green house. Each variety of tulips is shown orderly.....They are beautiful.......wonderfully beautiful. You cannot imagine that there are so many types of tulips.

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Tulip, tulip, tulip......

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First time I saw black tulip

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Maybe we came to this a bit early. I think the best time to visit should be mid April, as there will be more tulips. The first picture is a tulip field with different colour bands of tulip, but it needs more time to grow. Other pictures are wood shoes demostartion.....

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As a park, it has a lot of hang-out area....the seat are made of hay.....quite comfortable.

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In addition to tulips, they have orchids house.