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Posted by Summer21 on Nov-10-2005 00:21:

dEsidEL, the company is EU based....doing work for the Telegraf newspaper ( in some roundabout way heh)

And what is the consensus on the pics??! Whos are they REAAAAALLYY?

SS

Posted by mute79 on Nov-10-2005 00:28:

amsterdam is very interesting, and has a lot to offer.. meaning, it's very tourism oriented, which then translates into very steep prices for virtually everything you can think of.. i got to meet a few people that lived there and they all said, although its a fun city, it's also very hard to get by...

in any case, 4 months there is better spent than 4 months here!

have fun

Posted by cono_sur on Nov-10-2005 01:39:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL

i recall no such thing

Must've been the coffee.

quote:
Originally posted by Summer21
dEsidEL, the company is EU based....doing work for the Telegraf newspaper ( in some roundabout way heh)

And what is the consensus on the pics??! Whos are they REAAAAALLYY?

SS

Mine. All mine.

However, the ones from Sensation White are courtesy of loca & loconet since they were smart enough to bring their cam.

Link to pics

Posted by magikb on Nov-10-2005 01:45:

quote:
Originally posted by TranceGeek
it's also very hard to get by...

in any case, 4 months there is better spent than 4 months here!

have fun

from what I have heard.. you just need to learn to adapt to their style of living which is completely different from ours...once you got that down you should be ok.
learn as much dutch as you can before you go.. maybe even take a course.. the more you know the better off you will be as well

but yes.. I rather spend 4 months there than here as well.. it is crazy there and a ton of fun.. hope you are prepared

Posted by Tordan on Nov-10-2005 01:46:

^^ you guys were prolly too stoned to care who's in which picture at the time.

oh... Sandra, watch out for drunk girls on bikes at night.

Posted by r5a on Nov-10-2005 02:04:

Sounds like a party, have a good time and take it easy! :P

I don't have any moving tips and I was going to suggust ask in the other regional forum, but someone already did.

Good luck!

Posted by tatgirl on Nov-10-2005 04:21:

Go to Australian Homemade & get their hot chocolate- u will LOVE IT!
http://www.australianhomemade.com/

Pics from my trip in 2003
http://www.travelninja.com/gallery/...ls.php?album=42

And hit up any major festival headed your way, esp. any ID&T parties.
Pics from Dance Valley 2003
http://www.travelninja.com/gallery/...ls.php?album=41

Posted by dEsidEL on Nov-10-2005 04:27:

speaking of ID&T .. take ur two hands and press ur digits against each other with the thumb pointed outward in a 90 degree angle .. now take both hands and place ur two thumbs side-by-side with palms facing outward .. that's how they wave hello to each other there

Posted by joinT on Nov-10-2005 13:18:

Re: Moving to Amsterdam, Any tips?

quote:
Originally posted by Summer21
Moving to Amsterdam, Any tips?

take advantage of their relaxed possession laws for pot

in terms of accomodation i am useless as i stayed @ a hotel during my trip..

uber-jealous.. enjoy!!

Posted by lexclu on Nov-10-2005 15:43:

don't worry about speaking dutch... unless your accent is perfect residents of a'dam will be speaking english to you....

don't worry about the drugs either.... drugs in the netherlands are quite clean, and if you're worried about them you can always get them tested....

the most important thing is to not get frustrated... the dutch, like any other group of people, can be quite difficult at times, especially to buitenlanders... its nothing personally meant by it... its just the dutch... get used to hearing things like 'it's not possible.'

amsterdam is a beautiful city... take the time to see everything you can.... goto the rijks museum , see the nightwatch... also see the torrentious(sp?) painting, only one of his paintings to survive... the van gogh, anne frank huis, heineken brewery... do all the touristy stuff and get it out of the way as soon as possible... there's a funny little sex museum right by centraal station... at very least a laugh...

visit den haag, i like that city, far more dutch then amsterdam.... and you can see delft while you're their... when i had first moved to holland they were celebrating the city's 750th anniversary.....

other then that maastricht is a great town to visit... party/university town, with a very different history to it then the rest of the netherlands...

any specific questions, feel free to ask...

lex

Posted by Ziggy on Nov-10-2005 20:08:

I would move into a boat if you want to be close to the central station.

Posted by TheVrk on Nov-10-2005 20:19:

Re: Re: Moving to Amsterdam, Any tips?

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Originally posted by simms327
apprantly if you want somthing close to the station and at a reasonable price, you have to wait a long time, waiting lists etc...

This is also what i heard from a friend there
Not impossible tho....Good luck to you

Posted by kwongandy on Nov-11-2005 00:05:

my friend moved there four years ago. if you need help, pm, and i'll point you the right way. to find a place in amsterdam is quite difficult. you'll probably have to commute...

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