Hilton Amsterdam

... in Tijuana). Then it's onto LA, home of Venice Beach, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and of course Paris (Hilton). Then we inhale the smorgasbord of sin, Las Vegas (with a day trip to the Grand Canyon and NOT the Hoover Dam ...

Messed around Rotterdam and took the train back to Amsterdam to get ready to go to Prague in the ...

... and more in a city like Amsterdam and then...to get it back. Repacking was well underway for our departure from the Hilton and Amsterdam. Derek came back to the room from a trip downstairs to reorganise the car which was originally being picked up in ...

... . The multicultural nature of the city was reflected in the number of ethnic food shops and services catering to specific ethnic groups. Amsterdam's canal routes form a kind of spider web shape around the old medieval city. The city was, of course, first ...

... sold his works. Very interesting. We then decided to visit some churches. The first one was the first Protestant church in Amsterdam. It was rather plain (inside) but had some interesting history. We were told that when it was built the Catholics bought ...

... of about three miles--we are getting pretty good a "hoofing" it at a pretty fast clip.  One interesting note about Amsterdam--there are 10 million bicycles registered and they have right away.  Be sure to ask your student about some of our ...

Amsterdam After Koln we travelled by coach to Amsterdam. We shared a nice evening meal together with the whole tour group before sleeping relatively ...

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... with them. They were both hair stylists from LA and one of them had just finished helping with a hair show in Amsterdam. I followed them back to the Hilton where they were staying and hung out with the rest of the stylist crew from LA in the Hilton Bar. ...

... hotel (the roads are fairly confusing), but as we were standing on the A10 (the outer ring road motorway surrounding amsterdam) we realised we had made a wrong turn.  Probably should have worked that out when the footpath ended and turned into ...

... rater le train 7:39 Le chef de garre siffle le départ du train alors que nous sautons à bord ! Dans 3 heures nous serons à Amsterdam. Petit déjeuner acheté dans le train pour 5E au total, belle performance. La traversée de la Belgique est très ...

... scantily clad buffed males but instead the only "men" I found near the blue lights were the transvestites. The prostitutes in Amsterdam work for themselves, there are no pimps and they even have there own trade union called The Red Thread. For around ...

... in town and we later found out it was a holiday weekend and some people had a 3-4 day weekend they were spending in Amsterdam. We visited the Rijks museum and the Van Gogh museum. The Rijks houses art of the Dutch masters and obviously the Van ...

We landed in Amsterdam early at 5:45 AM, which is 11:45 PM in PIttsburgh. That means that everyone will be feeling the time change when we get on our next flight at 10:30 AM here, which is 3:30 AM in PIttsburgh. One member of the group got off here ...

Arriving in the city in the morning, it was a great relief to be allowed to check in early.  In a little bit we'll be heading out to the city to check out what's ...