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- Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Watersnood Museum
Our second stop today was at the Watersnood Museum, which comemmorates the disastrous flood of 1953 when a late January nor'easter swept away many of the dikes of Holland with a storm surge from the North Sea. It's all very reminiscent of our American ...
Amster-DAM it's windy here
... the ducks hung around for leftovers. Night fell earlier than Denmark so we went to sleep more easily tonight. Friday 19th June. Amsterdam was only a few hours drive and we arrived in the windy city by midday after taking a wrong turn and ending up ...
Amsterdam
With the three day weekend, we decided to visit Amsterdam. Bob was in Brussels for work, and was able to meet up with us. Amsterdam is such a great city, and it's renowned tolerance has led to a city full of very different experiences based on ones ...
Magic Carpet Ride
... ’s already coming to a close. What a magic carpet ride it has been. We are hoping that our KLM flight from Cairo to Amsterdam will be like a magic carpet ride. It is on a Boeing 777, the first we have been on. The seating is 3-3-3 ...
Canals, Windmills, Red Lights, Bikes and No Tulips
... cellophane they were still beautiful. We then made our way to the station to catch yet another Free walking tour held everyday in Amsterdam....yes l know l love my freebies! But they really are good value...and this one took us around the city for 3 and ...
Dutch Art and modern Amsterdam
... Tomorrow I head for Bruges (or Brugge depending on if you prefer the French or German spelling), Belgium. A few parting thoughts on Amsterdam. This is the place to come if you really want a lot of action. At least as long as the ...
Amsterdam - whoa...
... and lifestyle. Just went and shopped like a nutter the next day. The shopping is good - not cheap, but I like the style in Amsterdam. Loads of nice shoes that I'm not allowed to buy due to space constraints... =( Did get some packs of scrummy ...
With the Black Crowes at the Paradiso
... the street and around the corner from my residence at The Dolphins. On Saturday I had a gig in Nijmegen on the other side of the Netherlands, and that trip will be in the next post (#17). I'll end this one here and send it off with the two poems printed ...
I Amsterdam
WOW. XXX. That sums it up nicely! XXX is a misconception here. Its actually the citys shield and probably goes back to early days when no one could write but everyone could draw Xs. Coincedently, theres a TON of porno her haha! Red light dristrict was ...
Amsterdam
... the evening at a really nice bar called Blinq, she was really nice and spoke really good english. That's one thing I love about The Netherlands, everyone speaks great english and are also willing to speak it. Well I better go as we're about to go for a ...
Starting from the beginning!
... of Amsterdam. We had discussions with many people about our Presidential Election. I asked our barista if the majority of people in the Netherlands are Pro-Obama and he replied, "Not the majority- 99%!!" I won't go into politics too much, but it was a ...
The Netherlands
A few weekends ago we rented a car and took a long weekend road trip to The Netherlands. Driving through the countryside was a treat in itself because many of the fields were full of flowers, especially tulips and hyacinth. In Amsterdam, we took two ...
Goodbye London, Hello Contiki!
... here we made our way through Belgium and then onto Amsterdam, which was to be our first stop. We began our stay in Amsterdam with a cruise along the canals and a shot of Flugal, a traditional party shot, which hailed the beginning of many more party ...
Goedemorgan from Amsterdam & from Oirschot!
This is a top pick! Since my last blog we have been very busy on the tourist trail. Woke up to a little rain and cloudy conditions on day one here, however this cleared by lunch time. First got my camera fixed which was a relief to me. Then we went on a canal cruise which ...
Cruising down the Canal
... the canal. the next morning on the way to Germany we stop at a cheese and clog making shop and learned how to make both. The scenery has been incredible. Both the netherlands and Germany are very green and I definitely want to explore more ...
30 hours in Amsterdam
... attraction there. We thought it would be funny, which it was, but a little disturbing so the run through was quick. Amsterdam definitely holds to the rumors of, how do I say, um maybe Liberal it is. Although you could really avoid the ...
Amsterdam
January 3-4 We took the train from Paris to Amsterdam on Wednesday, January 3rd. When we arrived, we walked from the train station to our hostel. It wasn't the best place I've stayed, but it was decent for the price. We rested for a while and ...
Beautiful time in Amsterdam
... ;enjoyed the museum! I spent a couple of hours that day there, as well as lots of time walking around the streets of Amsterdam, in beautiful sunny weather. My room (I had my own room..) In Amsterdam was quite nice, and just a quick, free, 5 minute ...
(Iam)sterdam
... we knew were visiting the same weekend. We then went to the "interesting" Sex Museum, a must to see if you visit Amsterdam, but a very seedy tourist attraction, we basically just giggled the entire time. first night, we saw a sketch improv comedy show ...
Jakes in europe
... 2 use the tube so that was good 4 me but we just went around sight seeing it was good got some awsom photos were in amsterdam at the moment no hasnt that been abit of fun. the first hostel we stayed at was called bobs youth hostel its prity nice just ...
Will's Back...More beer's to share...
... Americans! Wednesday, the girls needed some rest so Taylor and Nick helped me bike the kids down to the beach. Another great Netherlands experience! A 25 minute bike road through the village and dunes let's you out at the town's beach where there are ice ...
Amster, Amster.....back in the 'Dam!
... ours just before the German/Dutch border. That took about an hour, then (as seems the usual in the Netherlands) our "direct" train from Berlin to Amsterdam became "undirect" as it just stopped in Amersfoot, where we changed to another train to to ...
Wrap-up
We're back home now, after five hours of waiting and 10 hours of flying. This river cruise was a wonderful experience. If you’ve never done one, put it on your bucket list; you’ll not regret it. I also heartily recommend Uniworld River ...
Amsterdam annals
... it. it was just gross, and he didn't even have a shower afterwards. From Koblenz we came across to the Netherlands, where we are now in Amsterdam... Contiki saved the shitiest hotel for last, it is so terrible. Its called Īnner Amsterdam Hotel' but it ...
No worries!
... but I got to fat mouthing with a kid from Connecticut going to school in Denmark who met all his buddies from back home in Amsterdam for the weekend...They were very interested in HASH BASH and I gave them some tips on some coffee shops...and them a few ...
The dizzy highs of Amsterdam
... as "no thank you, we're British!" On the otherhand, once outside this relatively small area... There was a whole different Amsterdam ready to be explored. The type of Amsterdam you don't hear about back home, which was surprisingly very pleasant and full ...
Day 13: Sinterklaas
Last day before we go home, and I tried to pack in the morning. It was pretty much like swimming upstream, because the kids weren't exactly entertaining themselves enough to let me be productive. Case in point, I was upstairs packing with Ben ...
BUSY AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND
July 5, Sunday We get the bus information on getting into Amsterdam, seems easy to follow. We purchase a strip of tickets and away we go. We have to walk out of the camp site to the major road and wait for the bus. Others are there so we know ...