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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on March 03, 2010, 02:08:57 PM
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Right. I have just had my first holiday alone in over 20 years and now I am raring to go.
I have just been checking flights to Amsterdam, a city I like but have not been to in about 30 years. If I fly midweek for a couple of days it's about ?22 each way rubschin:
FREEDOM!
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Stay at the Cok Hotel. Mrs S#2 and I have and it is superb.
http://travel.ciao.co.uk/Cok_City_Amsterdam__4228
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Cok? eeek:
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I s'pose you'll be window shopping then eyes:
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Indeed ~ nice place and not too pricey. Also convenient for tram routes 2 and 2a to and from the Railway Station and The Dam. Good bar about half a mile away. I slipped out one night at 7 pm when staying in the Cok with Mrs S#1 (yes I took her there too, she had a migraine that night) and went to the bar. Got into an endless game of cribbage/drinking Amstel (prolly the World's best beer) with the owner(Dutch/Irish chap) and a couple of locals and went back to the hotel after brekky the following day. I was in a lot of trouble with the wife redface:
What I like most about Amsterdam is that it never closes. You can eat, drink, smoke good pot all day and night. As long as you don't get silly the locals smile indulgently and invite you to their homes to carry on the party.
I s'pose you'll be window shopping then eyes:
Bin there, dun that
I did in fact take Mrs S#2 there to view the "windows". We were on honeymoon and a chap sprang out in front of us and announced "Good clean girls, you follow me they will take care of you" all this was directed at me as if the wife wasn't there. In one of my quicker moments I responded with "No thanks mate ~ I've brought my own". The new wife thought this a wonderful thing to have said ~ well she was easily impressed in those far off early days
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I love Amsterdam.... cloud9:
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I have never been sad24:
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And who is to blame for that?
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I have never been sad24:
Come along with me eyes:
What could possibly go wrong?
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I have never been sad24:
Come along with me eyes:
What could possibly go wrong?
The list is endless.... point:
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evil:
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And who is to blame for that?
I am not looking to blame anyone ...it was a statement of fact is all
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We stayed here, was luvverly.
Probably changed though.
Just over the road from the station.
Love Amsterdam.
Anne Frank, museums, especiallky the maritime one.
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Where?
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Where?
There. Right on the stair...
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evil:
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We stayed here (http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/the-netherlands/amsterdam/nh-grand-hotel-krasnapolsky.html)the last time...
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rubschin: Well if we are willy waving I could list the 37 hotels I have stayed in over the years that I have been visiting Holland but it really would be boring.
I could bang on about having been stationed at RAF Laarbruck which, as any fule know, is just across the border in Germany and thus mention all those happy shopping trips in Venlo and excursions to Amsterdam and other Dutch cities but that too would be boring.
In fact you could go to Bournemouth ~ lovely at this time of the year.
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If I was willy waving I'd have mentioned that I flew there in my Piper Arrow, White Waltham to Schiphol...
But I wasn't so I didn't...
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Where?
Where what?
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I have never been sad24:
Neither have I Miss D, thank god we are the only pure ones around here whistle:
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I have never been sad24:
Neither have I Miss D, thank god we are the only pure ones around here whistle:
My sentiments exactly 8)
All this willy waving is most distracting noooo:
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I haven't been there, but I went to Ostend a couple of times on football tours, does that count? Never played any football mind. Mind you, like BM I was flying for a while man... (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2Ftemplates%2Fimages%2Fsmiley%2Fheadgear%2F68.gif&hash=0fe068b7312248a7077acda25c7170aeb11b8821) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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Definitely a good place. Van Goch Museum and Haarlem and you can have a day at the sea, go by train to the sea. Lovely.
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I have never been sad24:
Neither have I Miss D, thank god we are the only pure ones around here whistle:
My sentiments exactly 8)
All this willy waving is most distracting noooo:
My lasting memory of Amsterdam is the streets being paved with dog turds.
Presumably something to do with having waterways where the turf should be.
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I have been there and had a lovely time. I have been told a tale of a stag 'do' by a chap I knew years ago who went, had his name and hotel printed onto a piece of paper which was attached to his breast pocket, he drank so much that he threw up, however he caught it in his hands and deposited it in a pocket. sick2:
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Reported before but worth repeating. Many years ago I went on a werk conference to a small hotel near Canterbury. Much collapso was consumed. I found a Head of Faculty asleep on a couch the next morning. He was in Room 16 but had got his key fob upside down and, after fruitlessly searching for Room 91, had packed up and collapsed noooo: