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    • To Cruise or Not to Cruise ...
      Day 3

      Dinner Reservation for 10, 8, 6.........

      September 27, 2023 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      Walking 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️back to the hotel, you quickly become accustomed to looking out for the odd bike 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️!! Before going into the hotel, we stopped off at the Italian Restaurant Impero Romano to book a table for us all to eat dinner in that night. Not knowing that the others had an evening canal cruise booked with dinner. So from a booking for 10 people, the 4 of us had plenty of room at the table. After dinner, Greg and Patti invited us back up to their hotel suite in the clock tower at the hotel where they had prepared a belated birthday party 🥳 🍾🍷🍷🥂 for me, including a present 🎁 and card.Read more

    • Holland - Friesland - Flandern
      Day 8

      Tag 8.2: Amsterdam Madame Tussaud

      October 1, 2022 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      Madame Tussauds Amsterdam ist ein Wachsfigurenkabinett in Amsterdam, der Hauptstadt der Niederlande. Es befindet sich im Stadtzentrum am Dam-Platz, in der Nähe des Königlichen Palastes von Amsterdam. Es wurde 1970 gegründet und war das erste Madame Tussauds, das auf dem europäischen Festland eröffnet wurde, sowie die erste ausländische Niederlassung der britischen Institution. Die Sammlung von Madame Tussauds Amsterdam besteht aus Wachsfiguren berühmter Persönlichkeiten in verschiedenen Kategorien wie dem Goldenen Zeitalter der niederländischen Geschichte, Musik, Sport und Film.Read more

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    • MutzelAmsterdam
      Day 1

      Richtung Bahnhof

      July 22, 2022 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      Zufällig bin ich auf die Hauptstraße gelandet und habe mich dort Richtung Bahnhof begeben. Dort war die Hölle los. Riesige Geschäfte, Straßenkünstler. Meterlange Schlangen um die bekannten Fritten zu bekommen. Hohe Regale mit Süßigkeiten und eine tolle Gasse.Read more

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    • TravelerMy Big OE
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      Day 27

      On The Sapphire

      April 21, 2017 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Today I boarded my new home for the next fortnight. The Sapphire is a floating hotel with 150 passengers and 40 crew on board. It is very luxurious with opening sliding doors in most of the rooms. There is a large dining room and a separate bar/lounge area plus a sundeck on top. Plenty of space and it rarely feels crowded.

      When cruising there is very little noise and you glide along the river with a neverending changing scenery to look at. A great way to move from place to place and so much better than a bus!

      The food and service from the staff is absulutly brilliant and they have great senses of humour. Somehow the group of people I made friends with have turned out to be the ones who are last to go to bed after a few drinks in the lounge. Strange that...      Read more

    • TravelerMy Big OE
      Day 28

      Canal cruise

      April 22, 2017 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

      On the first day we left the boat in the morning to go on a cruise of Amsterdam canals in a glass topped boat. Given the city has hundreds of miles of canals it is a great way to see the city. There were many lovely views and the perspective on the water was different from when walking.

      The city is built on soggy ground so many of the older buildings are crooked and look a little drunk. Fascinating for me from an earthquake prone city to see these buildings still allowed to be lived in.

      Bikes are everywhere in a city designed to be either cycled or floated around. From the canal boat, you saw them chained to every spare space there was and hundreds are fished out of the water by a special boat each day.      Read more

    • Travelerholland-belgium-france
      Day 2

      Cycling paradise

      June 2, 2018 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌧 57 °F

      For once, i wasn't the only person assembling a bike at the airport! There were SIX other people traveling with their bikes!

      Naturally, it poured rain on me and i got lost in the 20 miles between the airport and my campground. But! It didn't matter, because there was a bike lane the entire way from the terminal to my tent.

      "amsterdam" sign - bicycle (barely) visible for scale between the E and the R      Read more

    • Nadine und DominikAmsterdam 10.04. - 16.04.2019
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      Day 2

      Paleis op de Dam - Königlicher Palast

      April 11, 2019 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Der Paleis op de Dam ist der Königliche Palast, der sich in der Innenstadt am Rande des Platzes de Dam befindet. Er wurde von 1648 bis 1665, als sich Amsterdam im Goldenen Zeitalter auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht befand, errichtet. 1808 wurde das Gebäude erstmals nicht als Rathaus, sondern als Königlicher Palast verwendet. Seit 1939 wird es dauerhaft von der Königsfamilie des Hauses Oranien-Nassau zu Repräsentationszwecken und als Gästehaus für Staatsgäste genutzt, jedoch nicht als Sitz der Königsfamilie. Direkt vor dem Palast, wo früher ein gotisches Rathaus stand, erhob sich ab 1856 das Denkmal De Eendracht (,die Eintracht‘) von Louis Royer, das 1914 neu verlegten Straßenbahngleisen weichen musste. 1956 wurde auf dem Platz das Nationalmonument errichtet. Gebäude und Monument wurden zum Rijksmonument erklärt. Ein Rijksmonument (Niederländisch ‘‘Reichsdenkmal“, im Sinne von Nationaldenkmal) ist ein mindestens 50 Jahre altes Kulturdenkmal in den Niederlanden, das wegen seiner Schönheit, seiner Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft oder seines kulturhistorischen Werts unter Denkmalschutz gestellt wurde. Da ich mich zu diesem Zeitpunkt wegen dem kräftigen Wind auf der Suche nach einer Mütze befand, waren wir kurz im sich am Platz befindlichen H&M. Vom Fenster im 5ten Stock habe ich das mit Abstand beste Foto des Königlichen Palastes gemacht.Read more

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    • Trav and SukiRound the World 2015
      Day 172

      Amsterdam!

      September 9, 2015 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

      We eventually escaped from husky prison and make a break for Amsterdam.

      Its Sukis second time in Amsterdam and Travs first. We spend the first day cycling through the city on fixies- the city is very well equipped for cycling! We head to the local brewery for a few bevvies and wander around the Jordaan and the canals. A great steak for dinner, then off to the popular "Wynard Focker" bar to sample the local liqueur Jenever, and a few of the cocktail concoctions made by all the local liqueurs- our gay bartender Andre is hilarious and gives us loads of free tastings :-) We walk away with 2 bottles of the "Half and Half" liqueur. Then of course the obligatory walk through the red light district to check out the "working girls" in the windows and the numerous coffee shops selling marijuana. Being a Monday night, most of the girls looked quite bored sitting in their windows, although the "sexy librarian" look (high ponytail, glasses, neon underwear) seemed to be the latest fashion trend. There is a lot or stigma attached to Amsterdam, the legal marijuana and the prostitution, but we found those aspects to only form a small part of the city (probably because we didn't partake in either of the above!)

      Day 2 we took a day trip out to Zaanse Schans, a cute little village with a bunch of old fashion dutch windmills set along the river. We discover that this must be where old people go to holiday- the average age of most of the tourists we saw must have been over 60! Its a nice walk and we pop into a little cheese factory and take advantage of the free cheese samples.. Yum!

      Back to Amsterdam that afternoon and we make a visit to the "Red Light Secrets" museum, which gives us a behind the scenes insight into "the oldest profession in history". It was very interesting actually, and we discover a few cool facts- there are 400 plus windows in the district and the girls pay 150euro per 10hour shift to hire the room. The going rate per visit is 50euro. The average visit lasts just 6 minutes!

      Its an early night for us as Trav is feeling a little sick and we have another long travel day ahead of us. We pick up some groceries for dinner and also stumble across the cheapest Hoegaarden beer we have ever seen- normally $20 for a 4 pack in Australia, we pick up a 6 pack here for 3.80euro- Bargain!!      Read more

    • Christopher SolomonThe All In Sabbatical 2016
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      Day 4

      Day 4 - Departing Amsterdam

      June 21, 2016 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      On our final day in Amsterdam, we found a cute coffee shop that served very good third wave coffee (Back to Black), then wandered the De Pijp neighborhood and ate breakfast at The Meets where I enjoyed some great juice. We then moseyed on to the Rijkmuseum (the national art museum) where we took in paintings by some of the great Dutch masters (Rembrandt Van Rijn, Johann Vermeer and Jan Steen). The pictures of us on the oversized letters are taken in the back of the Rijksmuseum where the letters spell out IAMSTERDAM. After, we walked around the city some more to kill time before our train at 8pm. We found a quaint old pub near the train station, Arendsnest (Stork's nest). The bartender there was amazing. We asked if we could buy a sausage and some cheese "to go" in preparation for the overnight train ride (we booked a sleeper car for our trip from Amsterdam to Munich). He prepared a great picnic set for us, including an old cutting board from the bar, a real knife to cut our sausage and cheese, a generous amount of mustard in an old jar (secured with duct tape), and a little metal spoon to serve the mustard. This was definitely far more than we had expected. This was a great complement to the beer I bought "to go", which was made by a young brewer in Amsterdam who specializes in sour beers.Read more

    • TravelerTour du Mont Blanc 2016
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      Day 6

      Amsterdam

      August 13, 2016 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

      65km cycle from Gouda and we then had to see the Rijks Museum.

      Gouda - Amsterdam 72 km
      Tour via the rual Green Heart. The scenery is punctuated by rivers, polders and lakes (bird lovers bring your binoculars!). Saw hunters with dummies next to the lake.
      In this Green Heart of Holland only small villages, lakes and meadows.      Read more

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    Dam Square, Dam Platz, le Dam, Dam

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