http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl The no-nonsense travel guide to Amsterdam, Holland Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/845-amsterdam-mayor-job-cohen-resigns http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/845-amsterdam-mayor-job-cohen-resigns#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:41:45 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=845 Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen today resigned effective immediately.

He did so after Labour Party leader Wouter Bos in a surprise announcement this morning said he is retiring from politics -- and suggested his leadership should be handed over to Cohen.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/845-amsterdam-mayor-job-cohen-resigns/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/843-pioneers-of-modern-art-hermitag-museum-amsterdam http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/843-pioneers-of-modern-art-hermitag-museum-amsterdam#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:22:00 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=843 Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at the Hermitage Amsterdam.

The exhibition is titled, Pioneers of Modern Art Matisse to Malevich.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/843-pioneers-of-modern-art-hermitag-museum-amsterdam/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/841-hermitage-amsterdam http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/841-hermitage-amsterdam#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:20:45 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=841 Hermitage Amsterdam is a dependency of the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, located in the largest 17th century building in town.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/841-hermitage-amsterdam/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/838-tropenmuseum-royal-tropical-institute-amsterdam http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/838-tropenmuseum-royal-tropical-institute-amsterdam#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:59:40 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=838 Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum, the Museum of the Tropics, offers 8 permanent exhibitions as well as an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/838-tropenmuseum-royal-tropical-institute-amsterdam/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/836-amsterdam-warehouse-bijenkorf-drops-mexx http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/836-amsterdam-warehouse-bijenkorf-drops-mexx#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:39 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=836 Amsterdam's most exclusive warehouse is saying goodbye to clothes by Mexx, the troubled Amsterdam-based design firm which just a few years ago was listed among the world's top fashion brands.

Saying the designer's apparel has become too run of the mill, the Bijenkorf says it will stop carrying Mexx's women's lines by this summer. It has already stopped carrying the firm's men's and children's clothes.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/836-amsterdam-warehouse-bijenkorf-drops-mexx/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/833-houses-along-amsterdam-metro-line-construction-subside http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/833-houses-along-amsterdam-metro-line-construction-subside#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:58:23 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=833 Two buildings at Vijzelgracht, along the construction site for the new North/South line of the Amsterdam metro system, have subsided.

Shopkeepers in the buildings blame the construction work, while the metro project bureau simply says those buildings already had 'bad foundations.']]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/833-houses-along-amsterdam-metro-line-construction-subside/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/830-sony-behind-theft-of-iamsterdam-marketing-logo-letters http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/830-sony-behind-theft-of-iamsterdam-marketing-logo-letters#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:43:20 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=830 The disappearance of the giant red letters 'A' and 'M' from Amsterdam's IAMSTERDAM marketing logo was a marketing stunt from Sony Computer Entertainment.

Locals are not amused by the theft.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/830-sony-behind-theft-of-iamsterdam-marketing-logo-letters/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/827-letters-go-missing-from-iamsterdam-marketing-slogan http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/827-letters-go-missing-from-iamsterdam-marketing-slogan#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:47:08 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=827 Two letters of the enormous IAMSTERDAM marketing slogan have gone missing from the iconic logo's location at Museumplein

The letters -- 2 meters high and with a combined weight of 500 kilos -- were later advertised at a Dutch auction website. ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/827-letters-go-missing-from-iamsterdam-marketing-slogan/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/826-dutch-railways-dupe-tourists-into-buying-expensive-airport-amsterdam-tickets http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/826-dutch-railways-dupe-tourists-into-buying-expensive-airport-amsterdam-tickets#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:04 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=826 Dutch Railways (NS Nederlandse Spoorwegen) earn millions of Euros by duping tourists who travel from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to Central Station into buying First Class tickets.

NS claims that's what tourists want, but according to the VVV Tourist Office -- which also sells train tickets at the airport -- tourists usually elect to buy Second Class tickets. ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/826-dutch-railways-dupe-tourists-into-buying-expensive-airport-amsterdam-tickets/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/824-amsterdam-metro-crash-injures-31 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/824-amsterdam-metro-crash-injures-31#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:09:55 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=824 A collision between two metro trains in an Amsterdam station has left 31 people injured.

The low speed collision occurred at Wibautstraat station, when a train full of passengers ran into a stopped, empty metro train.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/824-amsterdam-metro-crash-injures-31/feed 0