Saved the best for last: roundup on Amsterdam trip

My trip to Amsterdam would not have been complete had it not been for this:

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From Amsterdam.......

It's World Cup finals today. I couldn't have chosen a better time to be in Holland! It's a sea of orange and crazy madness everywhere. I'm not much of a soccer fan but it's exhilarating to be part of all this. Exciting yet terrifying. I was almost ran over by this hoard of rowdy teenagers who have already had one too many drinks early in the evening. So I'm going to play it safe and keep out of trouble, but here're some sights and sounds from today. I'm neither a fan of Holland nor Spain, but for me, since it boils down to color, go team ORANGE!!

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More from Dutch-land

I'm very much an impromptu traveler. Spur of the moment - that's pretty much how my travels are planed and defined these days. I booked the trip to Amsterdam just earlier this week, having felt somewhat "stifled" after a long weekend in Paris. If it wasn't for an earlier commitment that I had made, I would've taken a getaway trip last weekend as well. There're plenty of weekend travel offers in France; they're not exactly cheap if you're a dernier minute traveler like me, but I do like the variety of "weekend voyage packages" to wonderful European cities that they offer: Prague, Brussels, London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid or other short getaways in France -  Cote d'Azur, Brittany, Normandy or if you're into exotic places like Morocco, Tunisia, Croatia and Greek islands, there are very cheap deals available too, especially if you plan ahead of time. With long annual vacations (the Europeans get on average, 5 weeks of vacation time per year!) and spoilt with such great choices of travel destinations, most of them at a steal if planned ahead of time, there's very little excuses to not travel and see the world!

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A getaway to a place where Orange rules

To celebrate my one-month-living-in-Paris anniversary, I decided to take a short trip and get out of town. Now, isn't she a weird person, everyone thinks. Why would anyone who's still new to Paris want to get out of town and visit other places? Well, alright, so here's the official answer: it's another one of those no-classes-Friday-and-Monday-what-do-you-do-with-all-the-time sort of long weekend. I've let two of those slip by without doing much, well, not doing much outside of Paris, that is.  If you want to know the other "unofficial" reason, which warrants a whole new post in and of itself, send me an email.
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