Shopping in Amsterdam is a popular pastime, because in most places we found street vendors and car-free places in which to open temporary stores shop under tents. Cuypmarkt a place like a white elephant sale and the Waterlooplein flea market in the inhabitants very popular. In the prices of anything, cafes, restaurants, beauty salons, and taxis (BTW are included), taxes and a standard 15% service charge. Even the waiters expect tips, even a small one, as they waited for us. Ido not blame them at all, because Amsterdam is not a cheap city to live, especially if you consider the loss of your goods pickpockets.
If you are in a hurry and want to grab a bite in Amsterdam, there are Febo shops, a Dutch type of McDonald's, so to speak. They have a self-service, where you receive the money and fries, hamburgers, sandwiches or whatever. Here we got fries with mayonnaise instead of ketchup. This was certainly a new one for me.
A popular fast food for the Dutch arethe croquettes, fried mashed potatoes and gravy, tasty enough, but I would not get rid of them.
Amsterdam is filled with street cafes, despite his sudden rain. Once the sun comes out, tables and chairs appear out of nowhere and with the people in a few minutes filled. There are also bars, beer, wine, snacks and are easy any time of day.
Beer is the drink for normal Dutch Heineken and Amstel are located here. It is usually served with ahuge head of foam in small icy or wet glasses with handles. Most of the Dutch courts' Neerlands Dis "with meat, cheese and vegetables. Sausages, ham pea soup, bisque soups, herring are some of my favorite photos Dutch flavor.
Once, we went into a restaurant with a hawker, a person employed at a restaurant, inviting passers-by into it and actually sting. The food was terrible. No wonder if she needs a hawker food was being bad. Stupid us!
The best place we ate was the Cafe VanGogh, with excellent sandwiches and salads, goat cheese. For me, Amsterdam was not the best place to eat, although it may well prepare a variety of fish in different ways, which I had enjoyed. As a rule, even their snacks are not easy for them are usually tostjes - grilled cheese and ham sandwiches - or donuts and pancakes.
Taken on the streets of the old city of Amsterdam to the suburbs, we were completely ice-cream vendors, who were mostly Italians. Most sell their very freshIce cream vending cart with umbrellas or awnings on them, as the outlets of nearby ice factory. A funny manufacturers made his sales in Dutch, but cursed in Italian. If I understood and laughed, he offered me extra ice.
Amsterdam houses are in such a way that they have maintained since at least two to five hundred different. Some have pictures of them, some have arms that can be of wood. The houses are usually made of dark brick and built their largeWindows are white and the doors are different colors. Most doors are detailed and old warehouses have wooden hatches. The facades of the houses are very narrow. They were like on purpose, because in ancient times, the owners, the taxes to their homes Latitude "view of the street had to pay. Hofjes called courtyards between the buildings and are usually filled to the brim with flowers to hide.
In the old city of Amsterdam, there are many colorful stickers in the crowdWalls of the building as an advertisement and some of them show some beautiful works of art in scenes and characters. We were told that most of the family name of the original owners or occupants of the buildings have. For example, such as advertising, had a bakery in a fresco-description as an oven with a person feeding the fire, and a few other characters around him with the words "de gloyende oven" sense "of the fiery furnace" in the lower part of the written part. These plaques show sometimesof the year when the building was completed.
A place that I could not connect (not) was the Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam. First it was fear of long lines in front of him, seconds I was, I would cry and make everyone unhappy. The house is a regular (I think) four two-story house with three windows on each floor to the first floor, an attic bedroom window, and a red tile roof, one could take to the streets and not even notice it. Near the house, a statue of Anne Frankstands. As we later learned that the museum was renovated again a few years after we were there.
My husband went to the Anne Frank house with her husband, my cousin, while my cousin and I waited for her outside. When she arrived, my husband said it was too tight on the inside but he did see a piece of her diary on the display. He also said he was glad that I did not go for the plant was tragic.
Then we went to the Dam Square to feed the pigeons and to distribute some of the sadness that webe felt. Dam Square is selling a paved square with pigeons and doves from the work of people lining.
There was a man there who said he was a teacher by day and he was the sale of pigeon feed for hours. Actually, his eight-year-old daughter was selling the grain, while everything else. He just sat there and watched her. I do not know the rules in the Netherlands about the young people to work, but this young once and for better or worse, the whole work. My cousin has said that the manlikely to be a refugee or an immigrant and his being a teacher was probably not true.
There are many immigrants from other countries in the Third World in Amsterdam. Some of them, as are most of the pizza shop owners who work very hard, others here, as has the so-called freedom and the lax laws of this country.
Some of the immigrants are providers of something or other and begin their work in open markets with stalls on market days. Many citizens of Amsterdam, not their food in the basketthese markets because prices are somewhat lower and the product is fresher. Many of the used or old books are also on sale in those markets.
One positive about Amsterdam's public transport network. A person who possess the life of this city may never need a car. You have a circle tram line that connects all the tourist sights, and when a five-day ticket is purchased, the sightseeing tour is very cheap. The trams are a sight to see with their unusual shapes and colors.My favorite way of transportation was the "Museum Ship," a shuttle service that went to all the museums and other attractions. The canal cruise provides wonderful experiences for people on the water and see how the ancient buildings on the sides of the channel.
Once, my cousins took us to a casino through a channel, having us dress up (since the casino was) a high place, I think it was called the Holland Casino. Of course, we were invited to play, but Inever do, and my husband hates to lose money unnecessarily, so we waited for our hosts to lose all their money and join us in the cafe near the canal. I think we had more fun not see this channel traffic as they lose the money inside.
Channels are houseboats on them, where some people live and work. Some of these houseboats are used as tourist inns and hostels. They told us that sometimes in the winter freeze the canals and the people which they skate.
Like most cities,Amsterdam is overcrowded and housing is a major problem. In recent decades, the town built modern apartment buildings with multiple units, was found wherever an empty space. It is now possible to see large homes on centuries-old houses and that disturbs many Amsterdam residents who committed the tradition.
The city's largest park Vondelpark and is being used to it, where the hippies hung seventies. However, the proportion is frequented by the bohemian free spirits is. She alsois very close to the Museum of Modern Art, but we did not go to the museum. Who went, she did not say how it as much as the Van Gogh Museum. We went to the Rembrandt House and the Historical Museum in Amsterdam shortly before departure.
Rembrandt's house is the place where Rembrandt lived for 20 years until it went bankrupt and had to leave the house. The reason for the bankruptcy was that he "painted The Night Watch" on the Commission and the people that they are not appointed as theResults. Nightwatch now hangs in the Rijk Museum. Here are many of memorabilia on display as well as Rembrandt's etchings, and graphics.
I was surprised to see a Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in this city. It seems wherever we go there is a Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. In Amsterdam, it occupies an important corner of the famous Dam Square, where major roads and open way.
Dam square is usually crowded not only with pigeons, but also with merchants, streetArtists, ice cream parlors, preachers, musicians, shoppers and tourists. The Royal Palace dominates the square, where they told me that the queen is often available for official receptions.
Beside the palace is the Gothic Nieuwe Kierk (New Church), unless it is not so new, since it from the fourteenth century, and it has a tower that people never finish to come, too. It made me feel good that it learned of efficient procrastinator in the world than the ones I know. Ido not know what is with these churches. In several cities in various countries and continents, we came up with a couple of old churches incomplete.
The best thing about Amsterdam, when we visited her, was with family members and care is taken in a pretty tough town. They showed us what they were able to show us, and what we were willing to see and were wonderful hosts. Since then they have moved to other places and how we do when we leave from Amsterdam thatSummer, they have also said, "Dead ziens!" a unique city that they loved to complain.
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