Thanks for the Amsterdam Suggestions

[Piquet]

The day has arrived I'm off to Amsterdam tonight with Mrs PK, returning Sunday evening. Any suggestions?


We already have pencilled in the Anne Frank Museum, the Van Gogh Museum and a CanalBoat trip.

try some of the "coffee" shops smileys/wink.gif

[Kerry-Exile]

A walk down the Red light destrict is a must, its hilarious. The Heineken factory tour was fun as well

[RugbyBug]

Pre book your tickets for the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums, you can do it online, was there last week and the q's for both were very very long, oh and dont let them put mayonnasie on ur chips, just plain wrong

[Kerry-Exile]

Pre book your tickets for the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums, you can do it online, was there last week and the q's for both were very very long, oh and @@@@SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">dont let them put mayonnasie on ur chips, just plain wrong@@@@/SPAN>

Are you mad, one thing that can make a good plate of chips better is a bit of Mayo

[McCloud]

Indeed the red light district has to be in any plans. Weird and wonderful.

[RugbyBug]

jasus, i think we will have to agree to disagree on that one, its not just the fact they put mayo on the chips, its the ammount thay dump on, u need a shovel to find ur chips

[Upfront_1979]

get wrecked and try and find the torture museum, tis a torture in itselfsmileys/smile.gif


sex museum is a good laugh as well.

[Point]

Wirebrush and dettol

[Ruck]

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Pre book your tickets for the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums, you can do it online, was there last week and the q's for both were very very long, oh and @@@@SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">dont let them put mayonnasie on ur chips, just plain wrong@@@@/SPAN>

Are you mad, one thing that can make a good plate of chips better is a bit of Mayo
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[Point]

Pre book your tickets for the Van Gogh and Anne Frank museums, you can do it online, was there last week and the q's for both were very very long, oh and dont let them put mayonnasie on ur chips, just plain wrong


I'm a convert to mayo et frites. It's the future smileys/thumb-up.gif


There's a Vlaamse (sp ?) chipper halfway down the Damrak by that Hooters place.....worth a taster smileys/biggrin.gif


Also Piquet, just by that as well on the Damrak, there is an Indonesian restaurant called Sarang Mas which is very good. Try the Ristappfel (sp ?) which is a bit of a number of different dishes.

[Point]

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[McCloud]

Actually on second thoughts seeing as it's Amsterdam the best tip is to leave the other half at homesmileys/wink.gif

[Point]

the Damrak is the street that connects Dam Square and Central Station. see map


to the right of Central station, as you look at it, there is the Golden Tulip Barbizon Palace hotel. Next to it is a really old church.... to the right is the Zeedijk (sp ?) some nice restaurants down there too, incl a portuguese i think. a few nice small bars around there as well.


get the train in from the airport, or depending on the hotel u stay in, you can get the KLM bus from the airport, which drops you to your hotel.

[The Crimson King]

Don't forget the Rijksmuseum, it's one of the best. Canal boat is pretty good, all things considered Amsterdam is just such a lovely civilised place. Except I was there about a month ago and I already can't remember what I did. It's a sign! http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/smileys/shock.gif


(Oh, and don't freak out about signs in shops that sell food "mit slagroom", it's only "with whipped cream" http://www.munsterfans.com/forum/smileys/lol.gif)

[Kerry-Exile]

Oh before i forget, if you go to a place called i think 'Chicago Rock Bar' or something like that during the day theres a guy that does a canal boat tour once a day thats absolute class, it's a small boat which he owns himself and he has no problem with you bringing beer or cigs with you on the boat for the tour, we had a ball, i was well on my way by the time we got back, was a really nice tour as well, its a small boat and its less touristy than the main ones you go for

[Kerry-Exile]

Found it, it's @@@@SPAN style="font-weight: bold;">Boom Chicago@@@@/SPAN> at @@@@SPAN>Leidseplein 12, really nice square and its a comedy club by night, i'd well recommend it as a bar aside from the boat trip@@@@/SPAN>

[dipstick]

You could watch the match in Durty Nelly's in the red Light District. You could watch other things as well!

[RugbyBug]

if your around Leidsplein, there is a good italian called Rest. Da Pepino, just walk past the haggen Daz store and its down that side street on the left, always busy but worth waiting if you have to

[Kerry-Exile]

if your around Leidsplein, there is a good italian called Rest. Da Pepino, just walk past the haggen Daz store and its down that side street on the left, always busy but worth waiting if you have to

Theres an amazing authentic Mexican food place down a side alley around there as well. Really nice but book early cause its booked out every night

[Point]

Watch out for the cyclists, they'll blow you off the road smileys/mad.gif

[dipstick]

Watch out for the cyclists, they'll blow you off the road smileys/mad.gif


Crossing the road is a nightmare. First there is the bike lane on your own side, then the car lanes, then the trams going both ways; then the car lanes on the other side, then the bike lane again and finally the footpath. I agree with Point that the cyclists are the most dangerous (and the most obnoxious.) They seem to have precedence over everthing and everybody else.

[munsterforever]

the canal boat is a must-notice the fascinating buildings and architecture of the merchants houses where you can still see the lifting gear which used to be used to take everything into the house from the canal. Outside central station is a musical yoke which i thought was something out of a hans christian anderson book. go on the trams-i think you can get a day pass and see the real amsterdam.

If you dont go to the red light area you wont miss anything-its tame and nothing to compare with kings cross-sydney.

[RugbyBug]

if your around Leidsplein, there is a good italian called Rest. Da Pepino, just walk past the haggen Daz store and its down that side street on the left, always busy but worth waiting if you have to

Theres an amazing authentic Mexican food place down a side alley around there as well. Really nice but book early cause its booked out every night






Very true, actually ate their the night before heading to the Italian, in reality theres dozens of restauraunts to choose from, I think the old adage of picking somewhere clean and busy comes into play, and if you like steak there are loads of argentinian places to pick from. Saying that I went into a traditional dutch restauraunt, all it was various types of pie and mash, very disappointing

[ozoyo]

AVOID the red quarter!!! It stinks, it is ugly and full of crooks. Walk along the beautiful canals instead (prinsengraacht for example).

If you want a coffe shop go to Dutch Flowers it is a peaceful on the Keisergraacht canal, for a bar and sncks I strongly recommend the Molden Pad at the cross of Prinsengracht and Moldenstraat.

Enjoy!

[dipstick]

AVOID the red quarter!!! It stinks, it is ugly and full of crooks. Walk along the beautiful canals instead (prinsengraacht for example).

If you want a coffe shop go to Dutch Flowers it is a peaceful on the Keisergraacht canal, for a bar and sncks I strongly recommend the Molden Pad at the cross of Prinsengracht and Moldenstraat.

Enjoy!





Can you go to Amsterdam and not be curious Ozoyo?

The day has arrived I'm off to Amsterdam tonight with Mrs PK, returning Sunday evening. Any suggestions?


We already have pencilled in the Anne Frank Museum, the Van Gogh Museum and a CanalBoat trip.

What's brown and hides in the attic















The dioherrea of Anne Frank

[Point]

The day has arrived I'm off to Amsterdam tonight with Mrs PK, returning Sunday evening. Any suggestions?


We already have pencilled in the Anne Frank Museum, the Van Gogh Museum and a CanalBoat trip.




What's brown and hides in the attic


The dioherrea of Anne Frank





Hell is surely your destination, Skulldrag !

[Point]

Very true, actually ate their the night before heading to the Italian, in reality theres dozens of restauraunts to choose from, I think the old adage of picking somewhere clean and busy comes into play, and if you like steak there are loads of argentinian places to pick from. Saying that I went into a traditional dutch restauraunt, all it was various types of pie and mash, very disappointing


I spent a number of months working at a customer site in Amersfoort and the canteen food was varied....but deep fried ! Quite surprising really.

[Piquet]

Thanks for all the advice.Getting the Anne Frank and the Van Gogh tickets in advance was a godsend. We ate in the Italian in Leidesplein on the Saturday night. It was great. We would have eaten in the Mexican but they were full and told us to come back in 15 minutes. While we were mooching around we found the Italian.


Amsterdam is a lovelycity, nice and compact, good tram system (get the multi-journey passes in Tourist Offices, its way cheaper than paying on the tram). The amount of bicycles is amazing. They're all the old "High Nelly" type I didn't see a single bike with gears. You take your life in your hands crossing the streets though.


While the Tour of the Heineken brewery was good, from a technical viewpoint, it was disappointing that there was no reference (or Merchandise) to the HC.


We should play the "Home" QF in Amsterdam