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Posted: 3/2/2006 2:43:19 PM EDT
I've been on a 3-week trip through Egypt, the Middle East, Turkey, Norway, . . . and now I am in Belgium for a day. I am going to Amsterdam tomorrow, a full 1-1/2 days before my flight leaves back to the States. I'm looking for specific recommendations for what to do there. (I've been before).
Here's the current plans: Arrive Check into hotel visit dam square visit a coffee shop visit a strip club walk the red light district, just for the sights only go to the Van Ghogh museum go to the Ann Frank house sleep fly home Any other suggestions? Things that are "must see"? M.L. |
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1st off I would do everything that is illegal in the USA
Then I would rest |
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scrape up 20 bucks and get a rim job. you will be done in time for a snack at the grasshopper club.
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It doesn't matter. No matter what you do you won't remember it.
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[ferris bueller]The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?"[/ferris bueller]
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Oh........... Nevermind.... I thought you were in Amsterdam Ohio.
Have fun anyway. |
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Go to the national museum, I believe its called the Reichs museum or something like that. The Netherlands had a long history of naval power and they have some really interesting stuff on naval history in there.
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Enjoy all the sights and sounds...it's a great place to visit.
Do ME one big favour......put you wallet in your front pocket. You'll thank me My main advice is above. But also remember knifepoint robbery is popular there. If you are not equiped for a knife fight and a BG pulls a knife... You know the drill. Otherwise....keep kicking em till they stop moving. Amsterdam has a very seedy side if you go looking for it....otherwise...drinkers and smokers Can have a nice time there. Be wary Taffy Prague is better |
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Cool, thanks for the idea. M.L. |
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Yeh, it's funny how a person needs to hide his wallet/money in a modern/free town such as Amsterdam, but hardly worry about robbery, in poor places like Turkey, Egypt, etc. Perhaps the more stringent laws in other places are a deterent? I appreciate the advice, but thankfully, I already realize the negative possibilities of walking around Amsterdam, especially at night. M.L. |
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Go down to the warf and watch the unloading of a drug shipment. That is the ship where all the visable armed are standing around for some reason. Do not miss the Flea market! Do a canal tour. Just remeber it is fan shaped with the archs getting lager and larger. If you watch the tops of unusual buildings for references and the colors of the bridges. You will do okay. If you get lost about 99% speak English. When you get to the church of satan. go across the street and walk on the other side after relieve yourself of liquid rfreshment! And under no cicumstances ever go to sleep it kind of builds up at night. And if a bar maid gives you a free drink and tells you to enjoy. That stuf that you swallowed was not from a dirty glass. Oh and if a girl will dance or come and sit next to you. you are in!
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I have never been to a strip club in Amsterdam where the girl were good looking... The hookers are good looking though.
Go to the Sex Museum located on Damarak... It's just few blocks down from Centeral Station. It's a trip. |
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+1 on the Sex Museum. |
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Check out the big brain on gardenWeasel! You're a smart motherfucker, that's right! |
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1. Hit the Sensi Seed Shop and learn how hash is made.
2. Hit Homegrown Fantasy across the street from the Police Station. 3. Smoke some Northern Lights #5 X Haze. 4. Go down a few brews from the Heineken Brewery. 5. Then walk the Red Light district. Stay on the main streets in the Red Light District. My cousin and I made one wrong turn and the next thing I know some leather cladded biker dudes asked us to come in for a dance. The song blaring from inside the club was a dead giveaway. George Michaels "I want your sex." HS1 |
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Youth if wasted on the young! |
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2 chicks at the same time. Package check before the lights dim is mandatory.
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No one said "visit the Anne Frank House"????
Then hit an S&M club. |
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Oh, yeah, I forgot about the herds of pickpockets and meth-heads running around over there. When I went, I kept nearly all of my cash, cards, passport, and other stuff in an under-the-clothes hidden wallet. I had a very few euros sitting in the bottom of my pocket, mostly coins, for bus fare and sodas and museum tickets and such. My in-pocket wallet had eight Malaysian ringgit and a Taiwanese 100NT note. I figured if anyone was dumb enough to try to convert them, it might be usable as evidence against them, assuming I could get the cops to bother to do anything (unlikely). I still kept a hand on my wallet, since it was one my father had given to me, and I didn't want to lose it. |
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I may not be the sharpest tack in the box, but I think I would have figured it out without having to hear the George Michaels song.... |
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Visit the hinekin museum. One 30 minute tour and all the beer you can drink for free. A great way to start every morning.
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Get a bicycle, one without a rental company sign on it. If you even slightly expend the effort, you can get a bicycle in Amsterdam. Junkies will offer to sell you one for like $5 or so. Why get a bicycle? Because it's so much fun to ride in in A'dam! You're more like a local, you feel like you fit in, and it is just a trip to ride in heavy traffic and see how the cars yield to you whereas in my town, drivers are so unused to seeing bicyclists and motorcyclists they kind of dont register in the brain. |
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