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Re:ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide by misja on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:26AM (#8723225)
The presentation claims that it takes 4 hours to travel from Paris to Amsterdam by car. Well, the distance is 750 km so you need a pretty fast car for that and a big wallet to pay for the speeding tickets ..
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Re:ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide by fab13n on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:36AM (#8723290)
In Europe, car is rarely the best way to move around.

Thalys high-speed trains get you from Paris to Amsterdam in 3h; add another hour to move to/from the train stations, and here are your 4 hours.

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Re:ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide by majestic1211 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:36AM (#8723288)
The presentation does not specify by car. It does take pretty much 4h by train.
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Re:ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide by boracay on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:33AM (#8723269)
It's presumably by train since the estimates are written on train tracks.
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Re:ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide by fermigier on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @11:02AM (#8723460)
The distance is actually 500 km, not 750 (https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/Paris/Amsterdam,+Pays-Bas/@50...).

And yes, the 4h figure is for travelling by train, not by car.

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