Amsterdam
A community portal about Amsterdam with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, lies on the banks of two bodies of water, the IJ bay and the Amstel river. Founded in the late 12th... [more]
A community portal about Amsterdam with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, lies on the banks of two bodies of water, the IJ bay and the Amstel river. Founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village on the banks of the Amstel, it is now the largest city in the country and is a financial and cultural centre. As of August 1, 2006, the population of the city proper is 741,329; the population of the official Greater Amsterdam area is approximately 1.5 million, but the real agglomeration is estimated at 2 to 2.5 million. Amsterdam is also one of the core urban centres of the greater metropolitan area called " Randstad " which encompasses other Dutch cities such as Haarlem, Utrecht, Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam and has a population of over 7.5 million.
Pictures enlarge if you click on them. Houses on a canal street in Amsterdam A canal in the middle of Amsterdam. My first trip to Europe was a business trip that included stops in Amsterdam and Tokyo. At the time I was working for a big four accounting firm. The client was a software company located in San Francisco California's Silicon Valley. My responsibility was to go to the Europe and Asia subsidiaries to look at controls they had in place to ensure that the company was in fact...
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25 canal houses = 1 extraordinary hotel
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When I think of Amsterdam, I think of canals. Of course, that’s because I have a not-so-secret crush on canal cities. In fact, I think my ideal European tour would be a leisurely survey by water of Amsterdam, Venice, Bruges and Saint Petersburg, preferably while staying in hotels set upon canals. To complete the fantasy, it would help to somehow be propelled back in time, so I could lounge around in a long...
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