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- Amsterdam
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- 15,981,472
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Amsterdam Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Amsterdam, Netherlands
Heineken, Red Light, Coffee Shops, On the road
This is a top pick! ... . Now, you would think that getting there would be no problems, but we never seemed to be more than twenty kilometres away from Amsterdam!!!!! Towards the end of the day, we found a hostel in Bunnik and settled down for the night. We ate our dinner and ...
Amsterdam
This is a top pick! ... felt as though we were driving to a Lions game on a Sunday morning back home. Once we about thirty miles into the Netherlands, the scenery begin to change quite dramatically when the GPS took us on a route off of the highway. We drove through several ...
Some days you just shouldn't get out of bed
This is a top pick! ... to 110 euros for a room with a shared bathroom in the red light district, I said I might go and have a coffee and give Amsterdam some more thought. By this time I was very tired and hot and bothered and cranky ! We retired to a "Pancake House" and ...
All good things come to an end!
This is a top pick! ... eat cheese. That is more like it! Next day and we are off - well the truth be told that I knew we had a flight from Amsterdam between 12 noon and 10pm. Yep yours truly had forgotten the time of departure! So the decision was to head into the airport ...
The Amsterdam-Pinocchio connection
This is a top pick! ... on hand-in hand. It seems imposible to not find at least something to love about Amsterdam. But then one realizes something- the Netherlands used to be one of the staunchest protestant bastions and one of the most conservative countries ...
A most rewarding investment
This is a top pick! ... hour and fifteen minutes! We were up in the sky within an hour-and-a-half of the captain's announcement. I arrived in a snowy Amsterdam a little bit past noon. Gosh, stepping into Amsterdam's Schiphol airport was like a breath of fresh air! After the ...
Amsterdam
This is a top pick! ... . L'equivalent du Parc Lafontaine mais 3-4 fois plus grand. ;) Aussi il y a tous les musees a cote. (il y a 900 000 personnes a Amsterdam mais tout se fait vraiment facilement a pied) Aujourd'hui je veux aller au musee Van Goh (je sais pas trop comment ...
Amsterdam
This is a top pick! Holland. Weird wooden shoes, canals, bikes, and tourists. The population of Amsterdam, I have been told, is a little under a million. Supposedly, in the high season, there are a million tourists in the city. I am not sure I believe it, but it would ...
"I won't tell your wife..."
This is a top pick! ... and we also tried stroopwaffels... kindof a sweet syrup caramelly waffle thing that is delicious... can be bought in all supermarkets in Amsterdam... we obviously bought more later on! We also saw a clog making place... they made clogs of all kinds, sizes ...
Amis disposables et espace temps
This is a top pick! J'ai mis trop d'argent dans mon internet alors je vous ecrit encore... Mon titre peut paraitre etrange mais NON je n'ai consomme aucune substance illicite.... oups, licite... bref... Ca fait seulement 8 jours que je voyage mais on dirait que ca en ...
In Amsterdam
This is a top pick! ... I was feeling quite tired so tried to sleep the hour, but couldn't given that my seat wouldn't recline. Getting a train out of Amsterdam's Schipol Airport was a bit of a drama. The damn machines only accepted coins, of which I didn't have any. I had ...
The Lady In Red
This is a top pick! December 18, 2007 Amsterdam - The Lady in Red When Steve and first talked about going to Amsterdam, we discussed certain things that we wanted to see. Since we had heard so much about the "Red Light District", we decided that this was one area of ...
Painters, prisoners, poofs and puffs
This is a top pick! ... is also a gay information centre or "pink point" on the corner offering alternative experiences and very different tours of Amsterdam. We were unfortunately too late for the theatre museum which closed at 5pm, leaving the only museum that stayed open ...
Of Red Lights and Symphonies
This is a top pick! 
Amsterdam Stop
This is a top pick! ... seat with movies, games, music, maps and more. That was pretty nice. It made the trip go by faster,I think. Once wegot to Amsterdam,wethought we would shop around since we thought we had time, but discovered that there was a long line for check-in and ...
There's Something about Amsterdam - Part II
This is a top pick! ... banker, married Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir to the Dutch throne and eldest son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. It was the real life fairy tale every girl dreamed of, and all of Argentina watched as the royal couple tied the ...
From Amsterdam to Accra
This is a top pick! ... people, I'd say there were about 20-30 of us Obruni (white men). The flight was late leaving as there was so much traffic. Amsterdam seems to be a wonderful city, would like to have more time to sight see however that will have to wait for another time. ...
Amsterdam, goodbye Ryker
This is a top pick! The first time we went to Amsterdam, we went to the Heineken brewery and watched the birthday celebrations. I decided that I wanted a part of that. We booked our flights and we flew from Gatwick. Landing, we caught a train and then tram directly from the ...
There's something about Amsterdam - Part I
This is a top pick! ... savoring it together with the fresh wind in my face and the afternoon glow on my lids. The buildings that characterize Amsterdam spread organically along the canals. They were the old residences of the wealthy Dutch merchants, lawyers, and politicians, ...
Rollin, rollin, rollin, Amsterdam
This is a top pick! Maastricht loomed. On the border of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, we had finally arrived. We drove into town, found a spot to park, found the coffee shop as well. That was my job done. We walked around having a look, and then drove off. We were ...
Something dodgy
This is a top pick! ... we went on a bike tour. Because there was quite a few in the group it was very slow, but a nice way to see Amsterdam and certainly a popular one. I was (as is seemingly usual) underdressed for the weather and so an emergency pair of jeans was purchased ...
this might get a little dirty...
This is a top pick! ... I've given them in Canada. Somebody at McDonald's must have wised up to my scam though because when I walked into an Amsterdam McDonald's I encountered my first fast-food pay toilet. Really just a lady outside the entrance whome you had to pay ...
Upside down on the other side
This is a top pick! ... as we had to get into the centre of the city. As we had been given a phone number for a person who lived on the outskirts of Amsterdam, we thought it would be best if we were to give him a ring as he might be able to give us some advice. Whilst Lucy was ...
Trains, buses, planes and trams
This is a top pick! We spent the morning catching up on emails and trying to get accom in Amsterdam. Then we lugged our backpacks up to the train station and caught the train to Basel. Then we caught the bus to the airport. Then we caught the plane to Amsterdam. ...
The journey
This is a top pick! Well, after a hair raising moment when we thought the taxi wasn't going to arrive (the lazy damn driver couldn't be arsed gettting his fat self out of bed at 3.15 to pick us up, he called another taxi firm instead!!) we arrived at Manchester ...
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This is a top pick! ... as an industrial centre: rail links were established, steel production thrived and the population expanded. As capital of a neutral Netherlands, Amsterdam managed relatively well in WWI, and the 1920s were boom years, crowned by the Olympic Games hosted ...
So Many Red Lights!
This is a top pick! ... more of the city and that was Amsterdam! PS - While on the walking tour, I leaned that my hostel was located in the gay district of Amsterdam....and it definately made sense! :) Oh Amsterdam. Love you, Miss you See you soon! ...
Amsterdam
This is a top pick! ... over the city, so we decided to check one out for dinner - with flashbacks of our favorite Desnivel in Buenos Aires. Unfortunately, Amsterdam's version of Argentinean is SO not even close. It was okay - but a churrasco here is not what you would ...