Amsterdam Favorite Tips by pieter_jan_v Top 5 Page for this destination

For the visual handicapped travellers TOURIST INFORMATION Review

Favorite thing: Amsterdam is a crowded city with cobblestone pavement at certain places.

Lucky more and more improvements are made to aid visual handicapped people, like beeping traffic lights, guiding pavement and more.

The latest I saw where braille rails along the steps at the Central Station

Amsterdam Webcams TOURIST INFORMATION Review

Favorite thing: Centraal Station
Smits Koffiehuis (Opposite the station)
DAM square
Koningsplein
A10 Highway
Schiphol Airport

USEFUL LINKS TOURIST INFORMATION Review

Favorite thing: 2013 24H Events

City counsel-page with interactive streetmap.
Printable map.
Amsterdam Tourist Board.
Amsterdam events and more
Amsterdam Information
Monuments & Archelogy
Wikepedia Information
Amsterdam canals
Museums at the canals
Houseboat Trivia

Latest news presented on the Amsterdam map

WEATHER averages, More weather

Amsterdam events of the coming week

Wheelchair accessibility
Access to Amsterdam Parking, Road closures etc.

Multiple links:
020 Page
Start4all
Startkabel
Pitas

Time Out
Hot links and discounts
Hotspots
Partyscene
Underwater events
Trendy info; muntthee

A walk in the old city
Amsterdam Communication Channels or Citysite with interactive picture tour.
Amsterdam in 360 degrees
Great Amsterdam pictures

Go where the locals go

None VT Amsterdam meetings

Internet guide

Urban Home & Garden Tour

Amsterdam Webcams

Fondest memory: More links:

25,000 Amsterdam FAQ's in AlphaBetical order

Spotted-by-locals: Experience Amsterdam like a local

Wi-Fi hotspots

Historical pictures

Public Toilets

Expat meeting point Amsterdam

Coffeeshops map and Coffeeshop pictures

Red Light Districht information
More RLD info

Amsterdam Centraal, Downtown news in Dutch.

Special organised private tours

AmsterZanne's blogspot

Not fond at all: Recent crimes

Kokadorus Statues and Sculptures Review

Favorite thing: Kokadorus, aka Meier Linnewiel was a famous Amsterdam street market merchant, selling cloths and other stuff at the Amstelveld square. He became famous from the nonsense sales talks he held, not only on the street markets but at parties and festivals too. He claimed to be the Merchant of Northern Venice.
Since 1977 there's a statue at the Amstelveld; his beloved monday selling location.

Jacob Israel de Haan monument Statues and Sculptures Review

Favorite thing: This monument is located at the Jodenbreestraat bridge near the Rembrandt house.

Jocaob was called the poet of the Jewish songs. He was born in Smilde, but moved to Amsterdam and worked as a teacher and journalist.

In 1919 he moved to Israel and taught law and was a correpondent for some Amsterdam newspapers. The monument contains the famous lines about is home sickness for Amstedam:
Die te Amsterdam vaak zei 'Jeruzalem'
En naar Jeruzalem gedreven kwam
Hij zegt met een mijmrende stem: 'Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

In 1924, just before he would return the Netherlands, he was killed.; probably by Zionists as a reaction to his ultra ortodox sympathies. This was the first political murder in Palestina.

Pointless violence - Joes Kloppenburg memorial

Favorite thing: At the Voetboogstraat 29 (side street of the Heiligenweg to the Spui) there is a memorial for Joes Kloppenburg who was killed by pointless violence.

The memorial reads:
17 augustus 1996
Vier opgefokte dronken jongens komen hier in de Voetboogstraat ruzie zoeken.
Ze slaan acht mensen in elkaar: cafégangers die patat zitten te eten, een zwerver, omstanders die het geweld proberen te stoppen.
Joes Kloppenburg roept "kappen nou!"
Hij wordt doodgeslagen.
Hij is 26.
Het is vrijdagnacht, halfvijf.

Translation:
August 17, 1996.
Four drunken ***ed up guys come here in the Voetboogstraat looking for a fight.
They beat up eight people: bar visitors eating fries, a homeless man, bystanders who try to end the violence.
Jos Kloppenburg shouts "Cut it out!"
He is beaten to the death.
He is 26.
It's Friday night, 4.30AM.

Above the spot is a display with the word HELP.

Amsterdam Gable stones Architecture - Gables Review

Favorite thing: In the old center of Amsterdam many houses have gable stones, that will tell a story about the original house owner. The stories can be trade related or displaying a bible story.

St. Nick Statues and Sculptures Review

Favorite thing: The Dutch version of St. Nick is called Sinterklaas.

Each year Sinterklaas arrives by boat at Amsterdam on the third Sunday of November and rides on a white horse into the city via the Damrak street.

At the Dam square the procession halts to great the statue of SINTERCLAES that is mounted at the first floor of the corner building.

After his Birthday at December 5 Sinterklaas departs unnoticed.

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis Statues and Sculptures Review

Favorite thing: The statue of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis is located in the Nassauplein. just West of the Haarlemmerpoort.

Nieuwenhuis was a Dutch social politician and an anti-militarist.

He was born on December 31, 146 and died on Novenmber 18, 1919.

André Hazes statue Statues and Sculptures Review

Favorite thing: The André Hazes statue is located at the Albert Cuyp street market, corner Albert Cuypstraat and Eerste Sweelinckstraat; about 2 blocks from where he was born in 1951 at the Gerard Doustraat 67-III.

Little André loved singing and in 1959 was scouted by Johnny Kraaykamp while singing at the Albert Cuyp market. He appeared in the TV program AVRO's weekendshow and made the record " Droomschip".

His real Dutch singing career started in 1976 when he was scouted by Willy Alberti and scored a first big hit with "Eenzame Kerst".

Other big hits were "Een beetje verliefd", " Bloed, zweet en tranen" and "Wij houden van Oranje".

He died in 2004.