A field guide to getting lost in Amsterdam
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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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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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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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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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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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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M2M radio is one of the first thing I discovered when I arrived in Amsterdam. It is a web radio work out by a group of media activists and artists, “a media environment for free communication, an alternative approach towards
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