Movenpick Amsterdam

... pub, where the guys had their first real taste of Amsterdam. We called it an early night and went back to the Movenpick hotel. Saturday morning Col arrived and we spent most of the day sightseeing. In the evening Susannah arrived. That evening we visited ...

... (I guess we'll have to come back in the summer). In the evening we had some lovely meals sampling some of Amsterdam's finest cuisines (poffertjes and olliebollen included).  We also learned that the coffee-shops here are not of the regular ...

... and meet us in Amsterdam today.   Heathrow was a mess and very few flights were leaving.  Her flight to Amsterdam was cancelled.  She scours the internet and finds a last seat on a flight arriving at 7pm that evening.  ...

... out into the City...had dinner and went and cruised around the Red Light District...amazing and unique.  Kinda funny, in Amsterdam a Coffee House is really a hash house, not a place to get coffee. Finally back to hotel, just ordered room service ...

Mövenpick ...

... noon. It was going to be a long day. Coincidentally (sort of) my list of my favorite cities continues at #3 with.......... #3 Amsterdam, Netherlands- I won't get into too much detail here because I still have a lot to talk about in the upcoming posts, ...

... we missed...BUT we got there safe and all was well, but it took about 10 hours total. We stayed at the Movenpick Hotel while in Amsterdam (thanks for the help finding that one Chad).  It was really nice and a great location right on one of ...

A beautiful cool sunny day in Amsterdam had us visiting the famous Keukenhof gardens which are 60 formal acres of loads of tulips and all kinds of spring flowers. We toured the countryside in this part of Holland seeing quaint dutch homes, windmills, and ...

... had there. Which was all of 10 minutes. When we go into Amsterdam Central Station, we booked our tickets for our next trip, Amsterdam to Copenhagen. But that adventure will come a little later.  From this point on in our trip, we were separated from ...

... have accumulated so we taxi'd to the hotel and then went for a wander, even though we were absolutely shattered I couldn't miss seeing Amsterdam's famous night life. Of we set, Will had the map...............so it took a little while to find the red light ...

... sugar on them.  We walked up to Dam Square and did some H & M and souvenir shopping near Dam Square.  And we finally topped off the day by a walk through the Red Light District.  What trip to Amsterdam wouldn't be complete with ...

... in a city called Oberhausen, Germany. We ended up catching the next train and having to buy new tickets for the train to Amsterdam from Oberhausen in Oberhausen. It wasn't all that bad because we got to explore the city of Oberhausen a little bit. We ...

... New Years Eve. After everything seemed to be closing we went over to the train station to try and find out the earliest train back from Amsterdam on New Years Eve/New Years Day and the latest train to the city on New Years Eve. We wanted to make sure we ...

... me and then you get up and walk back out.  The walk takes about 45 minutes each way.  On the way out a couple from Amsterdam who had seen me at the Kerak Castle started talking to me and wouldn't shut up, so the "moment" sort of ended there ...

... for a Sunday!   Had a quick look on the worlds slowest internet in a cafe that reminded me of something in Amsterdam minus the pot!  Walked back down to the lake and got some movenpick icecream on the way back.. oh caramel movenpick is my ...

... IN A REAL VARIETY FROM FLORENCE WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN THE OLDEST ( AT A GUESS 200 YEARS PLUS) TO THE MODERN MOVENPICK HOTEL IN ZURICH AND AMSTERDAM AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.  THE “TOUGHEST” WAS IN LONDON WITH 58 STEPS UP TO OUR ROOM ...