Where to go, what to do...
Is it expensive considering the Euro at the moment?
Whats your best story from the city?
On motorbikes in the city lost, looking for our campsite at the old Olympic stadium - we asked a taxi driver for directions
He beckoned us to follow him, we did & he took us to the red light district 🙂
We tried again & the same thing happened again
I learned 2 things
Most British men head for the red light district
Amsterdam taxi drivers aren't usually Dutch & they don't understand much English
depends what you want , there are the well known sleazy bits in the middle [ but no more than most european cities ]. cannabis cafes or the sex museum of rumpty pumpty .otherwise there is the van gogh museum or some really nice parks with jazz playing and tip-top tram system.
my mate went there and burnt 700€ in three days. i dare say he got his fill. well he tried but he'd been in the coffee shops previously and got turned out by a few of the girls after they took his money.
oh, and he almost got the shit kicked out of him after trying to put his willy in the wrong hole....
glad i'm not him but it made for some jokes down the pub the following week.
I dont really want too much sleaze going with the my better half so culture rather than copulation.
Get stoned and enjoy the nightlife 😀
Leidseplein will be worth visiting if you're taking the Mrs.
enfht sounds like a plan but with a museum thrown in as well.
Another story of Amsterdam [back in the 80s] that will forever live with me
One of our gang in the red light district took a shine to one of the window girls & promptly went in [telling us to wait outside for him]
In he goes, the curtains get closed
5 minutes later, the curtains suddenly get ripped open & she's there on all four & he's .... well, you know
Anyway what pursued was a wrestling match between him & her as he tried to keep the curtains open & she was trying to close them - it was hilarious
BBB_ Rich - MemberI dont really want too much sleaze going with the my better half so culture rather than copulation.
Another relationship lost it's fizz eh.... 😆
or the other thing is indonesian food due to holland's colonian past , which is really nice.
BBB_ Rich.
Visit the Van Gogh, Anne Frank and Rijksmuseum museums.
theres also a couple of Diamond cutting houses that do tours - the Gassan tour was the best one of the ones we visited.
theres a great market (Albert Cuyp Market) on 4 or 5 days a week that is about 1km long
[url= http://www.flyingpig.nl/whatson/pigWalkingTours.shtml ]Here[/url] is a walking tour round Amsterdam from the Hostel we stayed at last year.
this museum is fantastic.. more dutch masters than you can sneeze at...
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/
and take a tour of the red light district just for fun also..it is part of the Am'dam experience
food.. check out the "five flies" ...
http://www.toptable.com/en-gb/venue/?id=3668
Lord Summerisle Thanks some excellent ideas there.
coffeeking you have absolutely NO idea how funny that is 😀
Mega-expensive, expect to pay £5 per pint
As already mentioned the Leidseplein is a good area to chill at night after you've seen all the [i]other[/i] stuff. Plenty of people, bars and restaurants etc.
Hire out some pedal-back bikes for a few days, the best way to get around and great fun when youre stoned:)
[i]Mega-expensive, expect to pay £5 per pint[/i]
What I was expecting but not what I wanted to hear 🙁
Was gonna suggest he Ann Frank Museum too. Well worth a visit.
And you just have to do a boat ride.
We stayed in Amsterdam first couple days of Jan a couple of years back (driving back from Germany to the ferry).
Its not all seedy, infact - thats only a small part. A very small area of Amsterdam. I didnt find beer expensive. Just dont go into the main drags/tourist bars. Its London-comparable otherwise.
The Anne Franks museum had a queue around the block though. Huge queue and it was waaay too cold to queue up!
Otherwise, a great city. Liked it. Going back to the pron/smoking -bits. Its the one thing I feared. I imagined Amsterdam was rampant with these places. Its not at all.
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Don't put baccy in your joints - you have to smoke pure now because of the smoking ban. They are concerned about your health.
I lived there for 2 years, and really enjoyed it.. 8) To be honest, like everyone said, when it when from Gilders to the Euro, it became very, very expensive..
Word of advice 😉
Dont buy class A on the street and dont hang about the red light area after 1am.
To be honest ,i love the dam,ive been dozens of times.
Coffee shops of note-the greenhouse,very conservative
On the coffee shop note-if youre not use to it dont eat space cake or buy pre-rolled joints,they are very strong and it could ruin your holiday .
Find the [url= http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.364306,4.883004&spn=0.00305,0.006518&t=h&z=18 ]Leitzplien[/url] (I think it is pronounced Liza-pline) - I recalled it as Led Zepplin Square.
It's about a 20 minute walk from the Red Light district so isn't bothered by roaming weirdos!
In the corner that leadds back towards the Railway Station, there is a bar on the corner (will be to your left - they do amazing steaks and French Onion Soup - also the evening life round that area is also very good - no one seems to be there to get wasted on drink...they chat, music, have a few drinks...some places even have funny smokes!
Great place to visit...but I don't think I'd like to stay there...just not enough hills!
Hi Richard,
'The Doors' bar is worth a laugh. Most of the bar staff are bike couriers in their spare time (fixed wheel super niche roadies). They always had courier vids playing on the big screen when I went in there.
It was a shame that they were up their own @rses. Perhaps I caught them on a bad day...maybe they had cut their carbon handlebars down too much (if that's possible!).
Hire a pedello! It's hilarious trying to navigate around the one way canal system!
G
G pedello recomendation is now on the list!
Will have to go for a ride when i get back dude!
Bojo's (Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 51) is a good indonesian restraunt, Eaten there a couple times when we've visited.
LMFAO AndyP
only had a quick skim through but has anyone mentioned a boat tour, i went on 2, really enjoyable, use em as chilled out taxi's, they give a totaly different view of the city
when i went the market wasnt up to much, tram ride perhaps..
museums are good, some of the churches are cool, dont recall the names.
sex museum maybe
err i recall something about 7 bridges seeing them from the canal tour
vondel park to chil, lots of cafes to chil watching people do their thing and ladies riding bikes in high heels and umbrellas in the rain
and of course a wander through the streets and canals but dont buy anything on the street
about 10 years ago we were there, drove into the centre, parked up outside McD's and went and spent 3 or 4 hours getting mashed in a number of the finer backwater smoke cafes. We then spent a number of hours trying to find the McDs we had parked outside of (there are 14 in about a 2 mile radius!)
Its a great city, you get out what you put in!
I did AF museum out of season - no queue.
Was good, would not have thought so if I had queued for hours! (You can book online tho)