+Vote!
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam will host an open gallery (Open Ateliers Jordaan) during the Pentecost weekend (10-12 May). One of the participants this year will be the Fatih mosque which will be the first mosque in the Netherlands to host art-works. The Fatih mosque is located in the former Saint Ignatius Catholic Church, which was built in the 1920s and used as a church until 1971....
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Netherlands Being in a new city or region, I find that it takes time for me to progressively begin moving at a bit faster and faster pace. Instance, Amsterdam. Day one = very slow walking, day two = lots of walking, day three = ready to go running, and now, day four = ready to head it out of town on a bike! Getting to day...
+Vote!
Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Students of the Open University (Vrije Universiteit, VU) can get free board in the Amsterdam neighborhoods of Osdorp and Slotervaart in return for helping Turkish and Moroccan children in integration. Fred Jonker (27), anthropology student, shares a residence with another student in Osdorp. He doesn't pay rent since he volunteers for 'VoorUit' (forward). He says he applies on an impulse. He's...
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Today we go on CONTIKI TOUR YAY. We spend most of the night seeing more of London at night, packing, washing and getting every thing organised (more so our biggest issue is damm well fitting it all in!!! LOL), got a couple hours sleep then we woke up a 5.15am in the morning. Felicity not a morning person especially at...
+Vote!
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Xinhua Amsterdam, May 11 (Xinhua) Thousands of Chinese students and Chinese Dutch people staged a rally on the Dam Square in downtown Amsterdam in support of the Beijing Olympic Games being held in August. Tens of thousands of brochures, leaflets and souvenirs about China and the Beijing Olympics were handed out at the rally Saturday. Several [...]
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands The next day we got up and moving and got the train to the station cos we were going to Amsterdam. We caught the train, had a few changes and problems with the train but we eventually got there about 1 hr late. In Amsterdam we were staying with Ogi's cousin (who was convicted and previously jailed of war crimes. Scary...
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Netherlands Traveling is cool. It is a great opportunity to do life a little different than you normally would, outside the bounds of 'what I need to get done today,' or the busy-ness that we (or rather I) tend to find in my life. How this is so, I do not know, as I only work part-time. Yet to have the extended conversation or...
+Vote!
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Happy Mother's Day Mom Today was so pretty outside I spent the whole day walking around and just taking in everything. Basically I just get to people watch Blair. It's a little past 8 here and I'm in the hostel. I am really excited to switch cities 4 days in one place may be a little too much but oh well. Today in the Dam Square the house of the queen is here but she only stays there wh
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Day 62 -On our way to the Netherlands today, Jens had to travel on the slow regional trains because it's the least expensive. Karla and I could wait for two hours, then take the ICE train and still get there before him. We thanked our hosts and departed Germany. I was very happy with my experience. Today is Queens Day...
+Vote!
networked_performance (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
*My [public] space :: May 24 June 21, 2008 :: Opening May 23, 5:00 p.m. :: Netherlands Media Art Institute :: Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam :: with Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. **0100101110101101.ORG**, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa [...]
+Vote!
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
ChennaiIndia Festival in Amsterdam, an extravaganza of culture and trade Special Correspondent “The festival will give a fillip to the Netherlands”“India is the fourth largest investor in the Netherlands”CHENNAI: An India Festival to be held in Amsterdam in November this year will be an extravaganza of culture and trade, Dutch Ambassador in India Bob Hiensch has said.Artists, CEOs of...
+Vote!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands That day we entered the world's flattest country; in fact 27% of the Netherlands sits below sea level. The Dutch are some of the world's tallest people; they are generally very attractive and easygoing and will usually speak anything from three to six languages. Being almost completely flat, the Netherlands is perfect...
1Vote!
legionofmarduk | 03/03/2008
Costa cruise lines will inaugurate the new ships "Luminosa" and "Pacifica" during 2009, having them both start their first cruises from the Savona home port. "Luminosa" will do so on June the 4th towards Amsterdam, after having touched...
