The French Connection
The KLM flight finally took off as I tiredly lay back for my sojourn to the French land, for the nth time I mentally checked on the important documents- hotel booking, connecting flights, Eurorail passes & Euros and hoping that the recommendations on tripadvisor.com won’t let us down. The journey till Amsterdam was uneventful, with the wife & me sleeping all the way till the landing rudely woke us up. As the doors opened, we were greeted with the chilly November breeze and a temperature of 1o C (a not-so-gentle hint on what lay ahead in France!).
The Amsterdam Airport (Schipol) is more of a shopping plaza with a mueseum thrown in, and hold your breath… its own mortuary where deceased people can be handled and kept before departure or after arrival!
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