Whetting the appetite: Amsterdam (part 1) – arrival

I’ve had the desire for some time to go to a Christmas market on the continent, and that was the impetus for going to Amsterdam this month. Why Amsterdam? The best place to do this surely would have been Berlin or some other German city? Because Chris, with whom I’ve been spending some pleasant times with recently, was going with work earlier that week, so there was no arm-twisting needed at all to decide to stay on for a city break when his flights were covered by expenses.

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