Amsterdam - Things to do

damien

I've been to Amsterdam before but this time I'm going for a week which I think is a bit too long for just a smoking and drinking holiday so I want to get some culture.

Suggestions please. Modern art museums, boat trips, day trips somewhere etc

Thanks.

therecklessone

I presume you've done the Anne Frank musuem?

Other than that, try the Van Gogh musuem, the Heineken brewery, the Sex and Torture musuems (both a good laugh), and try to catch the huge chess game on one of the squares off Damrak. The pieces are massive!

There are loads of boat trips which go from just off Damrak, near the Grasshopper on your left as you walk from the train station.

Enjoy.

p.s. amke sure you eat loads of Pancakes, nicest in the world!

gaui3d0pnbz86o

i also recommend a cycling tour! a company called yellow bike tours, which i recommemd, does two, one for the city and one called the windmills and tulips tour- which is in the dutch countryside! very nice!

MissS

Why do ppl always just go to Amsterdam. There are more places in Holland you know!
So what about taking a trip to Utrecht, beautiful city in the centre of Holland! Esp. in summertime

30 min by train from Amsterdam Central

pwd

liked:
rembrandt museum
old/new church
the big park

disappointing:
anne frank house
van gogh museum

damien

After all that I canceled the trip. Work is sending me to Texas again. Eugh.

Fidelis

If the weather is nice when you're there, you should visit Zandvoort. There's a spectacular beach up there. It took an hour or two to get there but we were unfortunate to be travelling with huge crowds of Formula 1 fans (there's an F1 track right beside the beach too). Definitely worth it, weather-permitting. The canal boat tours in Amsterdam are excellent too, gives you a good look at the great Gothic-esque architecture of the city. There's a good club off Leidseplein with a big draw-bridge out front of it... think it's called the Forge.

I'd also recommend the Sex Museum, it's good for a laugh. [Anyone get caught out on *that* chair? ]

elivsvonchiaing

pwd wrote:

liked:
rembrandt museum
old/new church
the big park

disappointing:
anne frank house
van gogh museum

Bummer - what you may find more dissapointing about Texas:
There is less fine art
Traffic is not banned from the inner canals of Houston - or any other city- there are no canals here!
There are less cheap hookers.

On the plus side:
There are less cheap hookers
There are far fewer pretentious twats who want to disucuss fine art!
You may meet an oil-millionairesse that hated the pretentiousness of Radcliffe and finds your style illuminating. You need to be Asian and rich for this though!

PS. I'm still looking for an oil-milliona * fúck that * I'm still looking for a multi-billionairese that loves real piss heads - any takers? ANyone? <remains on shelf >

damien

It's Houston I'm going to. *shudder* Last time I was there I was training with rednecks from all over the south who (not a word of a lie) talked about the best way to cook possum and what rattle snake and skunk tasted like.

elivsvonchiaing

Houston is not the soulless city it is perceived to be with high-rise buildings etc. There are many buildings there that the the Nazi's failed to destroy - no wait I'm actually thinking of Prague