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Downloadable Amsterdam mini-travel guide
SAS Airlines offers a free downloadable Amsterdam mini-travel guide
by so I checked out the Amsterdam one. By far the best thing about these guides is that they are downloadable PDF files so you can keep them on your laptop and/or print them out. The information is fairly basic, but ther
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Heineken Experience closed for major renovations
Only six years after its last major renovation (and year-long closing) the famous Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam has boarded itself up again until June 2008. The Heineken Experience, which is the name the attraction has called itself since it last reopened
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Amsterdam Airport Layover Guide - Get out of Schiphol Airport
As popular as Amsterdam is as a destination, it seems to be just as popular as a place to change planes in the middle of a long journey, especially if your flight to Amsterdam is on either KLM or Northwest. The great news is that Amsterdam is one
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Pancakes Amsterdam
I’m not sure how this happened, but one of the few menu items on offer in Amsterdam that is considered “local” is the pancakes. According to Wikipedia, the pancake was invented by someone named “Sideshow Bob” in Shelbyville in the mid 1980s, so it’s unclea
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Amsterdam Weekly - download it free!
Amsterdam Weekly – download it free!
by , but you won’t recognize most of the places unless you are a local.
Here are a few that are some of the easiest to find:
American Book Center – This enormous English-language bookstore moved in 2006, but it didn’t move far. It’s located at
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Where to book your Amsterdam hostel
Amsterdam is one of the major centers for hostels in Europe so people are always wondering which is the best site or place to book their bed in the city. This isn’t an easy question to answer since there are many major sites and they pretty much all book e
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Schiphols upcoming answer to capsule hotels
If you thought capsule hotels were only for drunken Japanese salarymen who’ve missed the last train back to the Tokyo suburbs, you were right, but things are changing. A British company called Yotel has already opened one capsule hotel in London at Gatwick
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Cannabis Cup - Amsterdams annual stoner convention
As most Americans are working their way toward a food-induced coma on Thanksgiving Day, many are abroad sacrificing themselves for what they all hope and pray is the greater good. Of course, I’m referring to the couple of thousand people – most of whom
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Choosing where to stay in Amsterdam
Where should I stay in Amsterdam? Of course that’s one of the most frequently asked questions from people who are planning their first trip to this fabulous city. I’ve just finished a major overhaul to the hotel and hostel sections of Amsterdamlo
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Amsterdam in December
Being a mostly indoor city, Amsterdam pretty much carries on the same as ever during December. Of course you’ll be less tempted to picnic in Vondel Park during winter, and also just wandering around aimlessly loses some of its appeal when the mercury dips,
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Waterlooplein Flea Market - the best junk in Amsterdam
Outdoor markets seem to be gaining popularity in nearly every place that doesn’t already rely on them for its citizen’s day-to-day needs. Amsterdam has been blessed with a few for quite some time, and the most interesting one for most tourists just happens
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January in Amsterdam
January in Amsterdam – Events, weather, and travel tips
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Ice skating – a free ice-skating rink is set up in Museum Square during January. Even if you aren’t a skater yourself, it can be fun to watch others fall down in zany ways.
For up to the minute events, download the
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Amsterdams Red Light District is now on the endangered list
Only a few months after the city announced plans to take over many buildings in its infamous Red Light District and shut down one third of the prostitute windows, Amsterdam has announced a far larger program that intends to spruce up the city’s main entran
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The Jordaan - Amsterdams quiet art district
Every large city has at least one neighborhood that was on the brink of collapse a few decades ago that is now trendy and super expensive. The Jordaan is Amsterdam’s entry into that gentrification derby. This mostly-residential neighborhood was one of the
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Suggested four-day Amsterdam itinerary
On a recent morning when I was admiring the panoramic view from the private rooftop lounge/day-spa above the penthouse in the Amsterdamlogue Building, one of the newer gals from the Amsterdamlogue secretarial pool introduced herself and asked if I could he
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Albert Cuyp Market - where Amsterdam locals shop
There are two large outdoor markets in Amsterdam that run six days a week. The famous flea market at Waterlooplein is the easier to spot of the two since it’s readily visible from a good chunk of the tourist center neighborhood near Rembrandtplein. That ma
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Aalsmeer Flower Auction
If you can drag yourself out of bed early enough, you should definitely consider a morning visit to the famous flower auction in the city of Aalsmeer, which is just south of Schiphol Airport and easy to reach on a public bus. It’s officially known as Bloem
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Amsterdams top brothel officially ordered to close
Amsterdam’s most notorious sex club officially ordered to close
by is still operating, although the main page contains a rebuttal of the charges (in Dutch).
It sounds like this ruling is only speeding up the inevitable anyway, as the city has already revoked dozens of permits from
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Amsterdamlogues Top 5 coffeeshops
I should start by saying that with only a few exceptions, pretty much all the coffeeshops in Amsterdam are cool in their own way. It’s a bit like the “dive bar” thing where sometimes the coolest and most enjoyable places are the ones everyone else ignores.
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Suspicious ‘priest’ nabbed with 3.5 kilos of cocaine at Schiphol Airport
As if the Catholic Church didn’t have enough problems already, a man claiming to be a priest was caught yesterday trying to bring 3.5 kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands at Schiphol Airport. Evidently he refused a routine body search on religious grounds
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