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Vegan Hemp Burgers @ Robin Food

September 18, 2017July 30, 2020
Michele
Alternative, Eating, Going out, Restaurant, vegan, vegetarian

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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De Vliegende Schotel Restaurant. If you are vegetarian or vegan, you like healthy food and simple and cozy alternative places…

December 17, 2015July 19, 2017
herbert
Eating, Going out, Restaurant, Socializing, vegan, vegetarian

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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NDSM – Werf, an old shipyard transformed in an underground cultural center at the end of the 90’s…

December 4, 2015July 19, 2017
herbert
Art, concerts, Going out, Music, Social Center, Socializing, Theater

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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Weekly Couchsurfing meet up for travellers and locals

October 29, 2015July 18, 2017
Christien
Going out

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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Getting hot and steamy in the best saunas of Amsterdam

October 9, 2015July 18, 2017
Christien
Rerlax, Sauna

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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Golden oldies and jazzie sounds at the Weergever

October 1, 2015July 18, 2017
Christien
dutch culture, Music, Socializing

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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NEW BIKES, STOLEN BIKES, RECYCLED BIKES. Who lives in Amsterdam knows how useful is a bike…

September 9, 2015January 10, 2016
Michele
Bicycles, Recycle, Shopping

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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Second Life Music, every music genre, 20 thousands vinyl records

August 17, 2015July 19, 2017
herbert
Going out, Music, Rerlax, Shopping

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, beyond the music and the cinema, a space for talents meet and share

May 30, 2015July 19, 2017
Michele
Alternative, Art, Cinema, Going out, Movies, Music, Socializing

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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City Parks

May 18, 2015September 8, 2015
herbert
Nature, Rerlax, Socializing

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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Arthouse Cinema “The Movies”

May 11, 2015November 17, 2015
herbert
Art, Cinema, Movies, Socializing

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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De Bierkoning, where you can find almost 1000 thousand different beers from all around the world:”We pride ourselves in having the largest selection of beers in the world.

May 11, 2015November 17, 2015
herbert
Going out, Rerlax, Shopping, Socializing

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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Dutch Culture Shots – Part I – Toilets

May 3, 2015September 8, 2015
tokyorama
dutch culture

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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What is going on? WHAT IS GOING ON??!

May 3, 2015September 9, 2015
Michele
Going out, Nature, Rerlax

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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Cinemanita and other “underground cinemas”.

April 28, 2015July 18, 2017
Michele
Alternative, Art, Cinema, Going out, Uncategorized

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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Amsterdam street markets

April 28, 2015November 17, 2015
wildraspberry
Going out, Shopping, Socializing

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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Cracked Kettle, a very small shop in the Center of Amsterdam, on a little street that crosses Spui Straat (Raamsteeg 3) with more than 500 different types of beer from all over Europe

April 27, 2015November 17, 2015
Michele
Drinking, Shopping, Wine

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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Year of the Devil

April 14, 2015September 9, 2015
herbert
Cinema, concerts, Going out, Socializing

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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Kirtan, Yoga’s devotional songs. Every friday evening from 8 pm. at Svahayoga, a cozy yoga center in Jordan

April 8, 2015November 17, 2015
herbert
Music, Rerlax, Socializing, Spirituality

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, a social center in South-west of Amsterdam, close to the Vondelpark.

April 5, 2015November 17, 2015
herbert
Art, Going out, Music, Rerlax, Sauna, Social Center, Socializing

“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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Pomo Rosso, Italian take away shop where you can buy basic products from the south of Italy to prepare by yourself a good Italian dinner as well as many Italian typical dishes to take away

March 31, 2015November 17, 2015
herbert
Eating, Shopping

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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Albert Cuyp Market, one of the biggest outside daily market in Amsterdam is located in De Pijp District in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid.

March 31, 2015November 17, 2015
tokyorama
Going out, Shopping

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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Ping-pong night – OT301 – every Tuesday

March 31, 2015September 9, 2015
herbert
Going out, Socializing

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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Amsterdam breweries, shot 1: beer lovers go to Brouwerij ‘t IJ

March 15, 2015September 9, 2015
Christien
Brewery, Drinking, dutch culture, Going out, Socializing

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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Wynand Fockink, jenevers like never before.

February 22, 2015September 9, 2015
Michele
dutch culture, Going out, Learning

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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Pizza. Basic ingredients: passion and love

January 10, 2015September 9, 2015
Michele
Eating, Going out, Restaurant, Uncategorized

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

October 11, 2014September 9, 2015
herbert
Going out, Shopping

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 Web Radio

April 22, 2014September 9, 2015
herbert
Socializing

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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Tired of spending lots of money in junk food? Are you fed up with kebabs or vlaamse frites? Do you want to socialize with nice people? EAT AT VOKU!

October 9, 2013November 17, 2015
tokyorama
Eating, Socializing

Tired of spending lots of money in junk food? Are you fed up with kebabs or vlaamse frites? Do you want to socialize with nice people? So, all you need is a VoKu. VoKu stands for Volks Küche, a German

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