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|  | The Attendees |
| | How come Chris had noticed that a lot of New Yorkers would hang out at Amsterdam around Christmas, so he organized a meeting with an informal walk through town. |
| VOC-cafe - bottles enough |
| | Meeting Point We met at the VOC-cafe (as we did on the previous meeting). It's close to the Central Station and has a great interior. |
| | The New Yorkers The VOC-cafe is located in one of the old city-wall towers. The New Yorkers came in a little late, because they had to travel from The Hague (and I still don't know what their host Mique did with them the night before). |
| | Show - No Show I was surprised citylover666 showed up. He was not on the list, but just around in Amsterdam and he decided to join us for a part of the day. He was the early bird of the group.
Next was vrede (member for only a week!) and Mary.
We waited an extra half hour for kalimerachara, salampeace, Roaminmn and nurochka, but they didn't show up. |
| | The weather For a change it was sunny (!) weather with a cold wind at times.
Mind you, it was in the middle of the winter. |
| | Hit the road We went to the Nieuwmarkt and both Chris and Patrick were brave enough to follow me in having a "Broodje Haring" (Herring sandwich) at the health market.
citylover666 was experienced enough to order "kibbeling".
I could not persuade anybody to try the fresh baked "oliebollen", which were fried outside the local bakery shop. |
| | Downtown We continued walking along the Kloverniers Burgwal, took a look at the old Gasthuis buildings (now Headquarter of the Amsterdam University) and via the Staalstraat we went around the Stopera. |
| | Flea marketing Mary loved the Waterlooplein market. |
| | The Amstel River We realy walked a lot. Via the Blauwbrug we went over the Amstel River to the Rembrandtplein. |
| | Nightclubs, danceclubs, cinema's, pubs .. The rembrandtplein is one of the nightlife centers. We stopped in front of the restored Tuchinsky Theater in the Reguliers Breestraat. |
| | More walking We left the Munttoren at our right and admired the flowers at the floating Bloemenmarkt. We took a left at the Leidsestraat and finally took a stop at the Leidseplein at the Grand-Cafe Heineken-Hoek. |
| | VT-gossip citylover666 already went to a friend during the walk (he is becoming an Amsterdammer) and vrede & Mary said goodbye too, so the real VT-diehards stayed together. |
| | More exploring After being warmed up we explored the "9 little streets". |
| | The 9 little streets We went through the:
-Runstraat
-Huidenstraat
-Wijde Heisteeg
back through the:
-Oude Spiegelstraat
-Wolvenstraat
-Berenstraat
and up again via the:
-Reestraat
-Hartenstraat
-Gasthuis Molenstraat
In these 9 little streets many speciality shops are located. |
| Dam square and a fast tram |
| | Dam Square Via the paleisstraat we ended up at the Dam square at the time most shopping people were gone. The temporary ice-skating ring was just disassembled in preparation for the NYE festivities. |
| | Dinner time Everybody was getting hungry and as we had discussed real Dutch food already, we went to the "Oud Holland" restaurant at the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. I had some wonderful "capucijners", a real Dutch treat. |
| | Goodbye We had to split up. AC_spotter and I did some more photo shooting and took the Metro to the parkinglot. The New Yorkers went back to The Hague and prepared themselves for a trip to France. Follow my VT-Meeting Trail |
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| pieter_jan_v's Amsterdam Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | VT-meeting February 22 2003 Part1 | February, 2003 | 8 | | VT-meeting February 22 2003 Part2 | February, 2003 | 8 | | VT-meeting February 22 2003 Part3 | February, 2003 | 7 | | VT-meeting December 27, 2003 | December, 2003 | 19 | | VT-meeting March 13, 2004 | March, 2004 | 8 | | VT-meeting February 20, 2005 | February, 2005 | 26 | | VT-meeting October 27, 2005: A day with Maria | October, 2005 | 7 | | Vt-meeting August 28, 2006: Hey Jo | August, 2006 | 7 | | VT-meeting October 21, 2006 - Part 1 | October, 2006 | 8 | | VT-meeting October 21, 2006 - Part 2 | October, 2006 | 8 |
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jimmy2526 Wed Oct 28, 2009 15:49 UTC
i went 3 years ago and it was nice.went again last week and the service was terrible,the worst service ive had anywhere.the food wasn,t that nice and it was very over priced.will defintley be my last time there | LoriPori Sun Oct 25, 2009 16:35 UTC
A "Lingerie" tip PJ. Very interesting indeed. | stevebrink Fri Sep 4, 2009 17:26 UTC
botel web is not in english.unable to book | sal_77793 Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:58 UTC
I loved the tulip museum, the owner was so helpful and knowledgable. He picked bulbs and colours out for us and was happy to chat for ages. I stayed for ages and bought loads!!! |
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