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The travel bug
« on: March 03, 2010, 02:08:57 PM »
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:

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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2010, 02:29:53 PM »
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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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2010, 02:32:44 PM »
Cok?  eeek:
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2010, 02:43:51 PM »
I s'pose you'll be window shopping then  eyes:

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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2010, 02:53:12 PM »
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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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2010, 03:00:39 PM »
I love Amsterdam....  cloud9:
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2010, 03:43:37 PM »
I have never been  sad24:
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2010, 03:45:56 PM »
And who is to blame for that?
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2010, 04:02:19 PM »
I have never been  sad24:

Come along with me  eyes:

What could possibly go wrong?
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2010, 04:03:14 PM »
I have never been  sad24:

Come along with me  eyes:

What could possibly go wrong?

The list is endless....  point:
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2010, 04:03:41 PM »
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2010, 04:14:51 PM »
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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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2010, 05:02:10 PM »
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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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2010, 05:58:48 PM »
Where?
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Re: The travel bug
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2010, 06:07:01 PM »
Where?

There. Right on the stair...
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