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...
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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... Read Full Story
Coffee shops are the shit for many an Amsterdam virgin, yet locals view them as tourist traps lacking in “gezelligheid,” or coziness, the cornerstone of Dutch culture. Smoking yourself into a coma at the Bulldog is just fine, but you’re going to miss out. read more | digg story Read Full Story
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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... Read Full Story
Coffee shops are the shit for many an Amsterdam virgin, yet locals view them as tourist traps lacking in “gezelligheid,” or coziness, the cornerstone of Dutch culture. Smoking yourself into a coma at the Bulldog is just fine, but you’re going to miss out. Follow these ten tips and you’ll do Amsterdam like a local. READ ALL TEN THINGS AND TIPS HERE ON matadortrips.com Hey your going to go there anyways. Why waste the entire time just doing what you do on your couch at home! I found this on... Read Full Story
Why is everyone trying to ruin a good thing? It saddens me to think I have to live in a time when Europe's Sin capital wants to change its image. Before the legal weed, the sketchy coke dealers and the obnoxious college kids Amsterdam had two things: Prostitutes and the Sailors who loved them. When Amsterdam was a major trading city with a steady stream of Sailors ready to fight, screw or drink anything that came their way - the Red Light District was as they used to say "a necessary evil... Read Full Story
