VOrne, yes, the Amsterdam you know is already waiting there, with the canals, the narrow, brick-red merchants’ houses that lean against each other as if they had to support each other. But this journey is supposed to start at the back door of the main train station. Which doesn’t lead into any dim courtyards, but directly to the water, to the IJ – the arm of the sea with the funny short capital letter name that connects Amsterdam to the North Sea.
City break in the Netherlands: Shortly after … Amsterdam
