Park Plaza Amsterdam

Later on the 22nd and the 23rd   We stayed at the Park Plaza Victoria Amsterdam Hotel, right across the street from Central Station in Amsterdam, right in the middle of everything.  And for anything that was a bit further away, we had the ...

... the bus from Edam into Amsterdam, a very easy and inexpensive trip.  I wouldn't want to have to drive or find a place to park in Amsterdam and the bus takes you right to the train station. From the train station we started our day with a boat tour of ...

... of the specific sponsors. THe cruise was longer and better than the canal cruise I took a few days ago. I saw the "modern" AMsterdam and got a much better perspective on people who live in the newest part of town. DINKs are the only ones that can ...

... the hotel and started on a walking tour of the city. The tour started at Zeedijk and the only wooden fronted house in Amsterdam outside the Begijnhof. Continued down to Nieuwmarkt for some pictures of the Waag, the weigh house built in 1488. Walked down ...

6/13: -Train from Berlin to Amsterdam: $159 -Saw the Weigh House of Amsterdam, part of what was originally the city gates constructed in 1488. The upper floors originally held guilds, including smiths, painters, and masons. Surgeons would allow members of ...

We arrived at Amsterdam Centraal station at 12.40pm from Brussels and walked across the road to our hotel, Hotel Victoria. We checked in and confirmed out flight to London for Thursday and arranged our airport transfer pick-up time. Decided to walk back ...

... a short rest before heading out for some dinner. Finding somewhere to eat was an adventure in itself, every third restaurant in amsterdam seems to be an argentinian steak house, there were a number of mcdonald and burger kings and many beer fronted ...

... students are surprised by is how much reading and homework Dutch universities assign. Some of my friends at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (another university) who started classes a week before us said they had a ton of work to do already. I'm a little ...

... guide. He showed us some good English book stores, the Begijnhof (a small historic square), Magna Plaza (a shopping center) and Dam Square. We also visited the Amsterdam Historical Museum. I got to see a Rembrandt painting at the Museum, but didn't get a ...

Alright, after a harrowing adventure getting to the airport... i made it alive. We went to the Van Gogh museum and got lunch at the Hard Rock. This was a quick day jaunting around and just checking things out. I went down to the red light district and it ...

... que pueden llegar a ser realmente retorcidas. Quien lea esto no debe tener ninguna duda que durante nuestro cuarto día en Amsterdam visitamos "Nuestro Señor en el Ático", una iglesia católica clandestina del siglo XVII que Antonio y yo hemos ...

Amsterdam siempre será una de estas ciudades en las que estuve y tuve que redescubir en una siguiente visita. No fue lo mismo ir solo hace trece años que ahora acompañado de amigos, posiblemente los más cercanos que ahora mismo tengo por tres ...

... de apenas una hora por los canales. Después, Miguel y yo hemos ido a una librería que me llamó mucho la atención en la plaza Spui. Se trata de The American Book Center, y como su nombre indica, gran parte de las obras que están apiladas en esta ...

... neos, pero no sé si uno conocería la obra del otro. Después de devorar sendos bocadillos en un barecito en la plaza Spui, hemos ido a la Begijnhof, un remanso de casitas que supusieron un refugio para las beginas, una hermandad femenina católica ...

... next year. *** Another place I wanted to go and see but will have to wait until next year is Vondelpark. Vondelpark is Amsterdam's version of Lincoln Park. It is a huge green patch in the middle of the city. On Queen's Day, Vondelpark is for the kids. ...

... was illuminated by various colors of lights. The tour progressed through several different parts of that famous part of Amsterdam, including one location that advertised “Live Sex Shows”.  We eventually passed more windows, including ...

... and read up on the next destination.  But I couldn't bring myself to do it ... I simply sat and reflected on Amsterdam's magnificence.  It reminded me of a much cooler night in Interlaken, Switzerland and also a similar night in Bolzano, Italy ...

  Dag 1 Amsterdam-Frankfurt-New York vertraging,vertraging hoog hoger hoogst Halllo allemaal leuk dat jullie weer met ons mee lezen op onze reis, deze keer door de USA. Na ons de avond voor vertrek nog even te hebben laten knippen, want je ...

La ruta que seguimos para ir al Museo Van Gogh es prácticamente la misma que la que anduvimos ayer para ir al Rijs. Uno de los edificios más prominentes de Damrak es el de la Bolsa, cuyo interior, que nunca visitamos, estaba referido en un libro sobre ...

It's true! You can smoke as much grass as you want here! Unfortunately I have been ridiculously sick the last day or so I haven't been back to partake since Thursday (I think it was Thursday). Between the lack of rest and bitter cold my body decided to ...