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Nice to Amsterdam

June 3, 2022

We travelled from France to The Netherlands the day before our Frank Lloyd Wright Trust tour, 'Dutch Modernism: Amsterdam and the Avant-Garde' began.

After takeoff from Nice, we circled and flew over the Nice airport. This gave us a great view of the parts of the Azur Coast we visited during our stay in Nice.

As we approached Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, we saw agricutural fields, a power plant, and windmills of the power generation type.

The Conservatorium, our hotel in Amsterdam. The building was originally designed by Dutch architect Daniel Knuttel as the Rijkspostspaarband (I think that translates as 'sports bar') and sparked the regeneration of the Museum Quarter in Amsterdam. In 1978 the building was repurposed as the Sweelinck Conservatorium.

This gate and drive led to a nicely sheltered and quiet hotel entrance. The hotel guest rooms were in the more modern addition in the back that was originally part of the music conservatory.

This modern addition on the back of the historic building housed the hotel reception, lobby, and dining room in which we were served all of our breakfasts.

This stairway led to the very modern guest rooms. Of course, there were elevators as well.

Our guest room

From our hotel window, we were able to watch the procession of parents taking their children to school.