A field guide to getting lost in Amsterdam
Hi Everyone! I guess you are enjoying Amsterdam or planning your trip to Holland. Well, I have a very bad news for you: YOU ARE POLLUTING!!! Yes, unfortunately we humans are disastrous in environmental terms! But still, if you are
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Vegan Hemp Burgers are healthy plant based options for the horeca in Amsterdam. They’re burgers with a story, not about the benefits of a plant based diet, but about Amsterdam as the most multicultural city in the world. These 13
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Chi Kung is an ancient art used in martial art and for health. Chi Kung means “cultivation of energy” or “cultivation of life vitality”. This Chi Kung class is an introduction, but also in depth study of a simple act
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Hi people, if you are vegetarian or vegan, you like healthy food and simple and cozy alternative places, then you would like eating at “De Vliegende Schotel”, which in english means “The Flying Dish” . The restaurant is run by
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Hi there, since Herb rediscovered the pleasure of a good joint some times, in this pages you will get also some tips about it. Last week I was looking for good black hash and De Tweede Kamer seems to be
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Located on the northern banks of the IJ, NDSM – Werf is an old shipyard transformed in an underground cultural center at the end of the 90’s, when a group of artists, theater people, skaters and architects, known as Kinetisch
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Are you a lonely tourist lost in Amsterdam and you don’t know where to go on a Saturday night? Fear no more, because you are probably not the only one! Saturday night, 10 PM. Location: Cafe de D’oude Herbergh, within
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Sick and tired of the raindrops falling out of the sky instantly? Do you want to relax but you don’t know where to go? Here is a selection of a few saunas for you where can forget about the crappy weather outsite and where you can reload your battery.
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Are you a big fan of LP’s? Then you shouldn’t miss De Weergever. This is a small bar and library where one can exchange gramophone records. There is an impressive collection of LP’s from all over the world. Around the
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Who lives in Amsterdam knows how useful is to have a bike. If you want to buy a new bike, you could pay up to 600 euro. Stolen bikes (also known as Junkie Bikes) cost between 5 and 25 Euros,
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Hi there, if you like LP’s records, I suggest a visit to this shop where you can find every music genre and a collection of 20 thousands vinyl records. Cheap prices and nice atmosphere, you can spent few hours listening
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Mezrab is growing, Mezrab is alive, is playing music, is telling stories, is explaining the reality through cinema, poetry, colours… life! One week ago I had the pleasure to spend half an hour with the Iranian-born Sahand. His idea is
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If you arrive in Amsterdam and the sun is shining you should consider yourself a very very lucky person. Hence forget that you are a tourist and act as an Amsterdammer. How? Just enjoy every sunny second! A good way
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The Movies is the oldest movie theater in use in the Netherlands and one of the oldest in the world.The first film presentation was given, in fact, in October 11th 1912 when the cinema was called the “Tavenu”, one screen
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If you like good beers I suggest to pay a visit also to “De Bierkoning”, a beer shop behind the Dam where you can find almost 1000 thousand different beers from all around the world:”We pride ourselves in having the
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The Netherlands are a small country, but they present many unique cultural features compared to other European nations. Holland have a most peculiar wet territory, and the Dutch have learned through centuries how to live and how to manage it
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Ducks! These wonderful birds are the real citizens of this city. They are everywhere. Take your bike for a daily ride and watch them having a meeting in Vondelpark (where the usually discuss about foreign policy and coffee shops), along
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Every Monday night the cinema expert Jeffrey proposes a movie from the database of his mind at the pub ‘De Nieuwe Anita’ on Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Oud-West). Bar open from 19.30 hours, entree € 2,50. It is a perfect place
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I generally associate markets to worm and sunny cities: when I think about a market.. well.. only places as Marrakesh, Jerusalem, the South of Italy cross my mind and a smell of spices follows my thoughts. That’s why when I
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Go for a beer? Sometimes it’s nice to have a good beer in a typical Amsterdammer cafè, but when the summer comes it is wonderful to spend all the day long in the parks or just sitting by the canals
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Shown at Overtoom 301’s cinema “Rok ďábla” (Year of the Devil, Czech Republic, 2002, 88 min.) is a comedic music documentary direct by Petr Zelenka, starring real-life Czech folk-rocker Jarek Nohavica as a fictionalized version of himself. The following musicians
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Every friday evening from 8 pm. at Svahayoga, a cozy yoga center in Jordan, is possible to enjoy a couple of hours singing, playing and meditating with very lovely people. Sri Krishna and his holy flute Kirtan , from sanscrit
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“Binnenpretje” is a dutch expression not easy to translate in other languages. It could mean something like “laughing inside” or “having an happy feeling inside”.. The Binnenpret is a social center in South-west of Amsterdam, close to the Vondelpark. Originally
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Located beside the Vondelpark’ west entrance, in front of OCCI (Binnenpret’s concert hall), Pomo Rosso is an Italian take away shop where you can buy basic products from the south of Italy to prepare by yourself a good Italian dinner
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During closing time in Albert Cuypmarkt, dozens of herons come by to seek some food left overs. Foto tokyorama One of the biggest outside daily market in Amsterdam is located in De Pijp District in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid. The street and
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Squatted in 1999 by a group of artists, OT301 is now a well recognized multimedia cultural center, located in Overtoom 301. Many activities are organized throughout the week at OT301: an ‘organic cultural kitchen’, movie projections, dance, yoga and trapeze
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The Netherlands might be famous for a lot of local brewed products, but something tells me that the first thing tourists try probably isn’t beer. For a reason, Heineken tastes like bitter water and other beers haven’t made it abroad.
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They have Style! This is what Charles Bukowsky would say about Wynand Fockink after a visit at the tasting room, 10 seconds walk from Dam Square. Born in 1679, Wynand Fockink liqueur distillery is acually managed by the two eager
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Who lives in Amsterdam knows that finding a good pizza is a hard work! To prepare a good one you need: 1. experience, 2. the right ingredients, 3. the right oven, 4. love. Well, you can find all that stuff
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Waterlooplein Flea Market is one of the oldest market in Amsterdam. It has been opened in 1893 as a Jewish Market who has been closed in 1941 with the Jews persecutions. Reopened like a general bazaar after the War, during
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