Canals, Museums, Trolleys, Hotels, Bridges, Stations, Squares, History,, Meals, Restaurants, Sandwich Shops, Snacks.
Amsterdam is a happy and relaxed city and easy to explore by bus, tram, boat…or on foot. On your way you can stop and admire the tiny craftsmen’s shops which have paintings, glassware, clogs and ceramics of all types. Wealthy merchants and bankers built elegant houses along the canals which are best viewed by taking…
The budget hotels of place Amsterdam are like no others on earth. Located chiefly in canal houses of 17th and 18th century construction, they go up, not out. So narrow are these buildings that their stairways are like a ship’s-thin little ledges that require a bannister for support. On the outside of each house, you’ll…
Amsterdam… city of Rembrandt, red lights, canals, cannabis and… bicycles. The slowly whirring sound of wheels is the soundtrack to a city constantly on the move on models that haven’t changed since the 1940s. Well, why bother with gears when everywhere is so flat? But then who needs even two wheels when you can walk…
Around four hours after lunch, you’ll be ready for the favorite afternoon snack of the Amsterdammers—a raw herring, eaten with a toothpick, from the counter of an open-air stand! While other European cities specialize in hot sausage stands, scattered around town, Amsterdam offers herring stands instead—and after eating your first raw Dutch herring, covered with…
As Amsterdam is the fourth most popular European city (after London, Paris and Rome), it’s busy in summer, and often all the hotels are full. Still, you’ll always find a bed in one of the hostels or the Sleep-In: check ‘Use It’ for current location. The VVV will find you a room for a small…
A large percentage of the restaurants in Amsterdam include a “koffietafel” on their lunch-time menu, even when they specialize in hot meals. It’s rarely difficult, therefore, to find a “koffietafel,” and it’s also good to remember that a koffietafel is an unusually inexpensive lunch to have. Typical of what you’ll receive and pay is the…
The first meal of the day presents no problem in Amsterdam-it is always served in your hotel, is nearly always included free in the cost of your hotel room, and is always the most incredibly-large morning feast you’ve encountered: several sorts of Dutch breads and rolls, huge hunks of butter, marmalade, slices of luscious Dutch…