http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl The no-nonsense travel guide to Amsterdam, Holland Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:07:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 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 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/822-most-heineken-beer-in-amsterdam-is-fake http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/822-most-heineken-beer-in-amsterdam-is-fake#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:33:34 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=822 If you order a Heineken beer in an Amsterdam pub or restaurant there is a good chance that you'll be served an unbranded brew instead.

The beer flows from Heineken owned- and labeled taps and is served in Heineken glasses, but in reality comes from unbranded barrels originating from brewers with overcapacity in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/822-most-heineken-beer-in-amsterdam-is-fake/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/819-amsterdam-biienkorf-wants-metro-drilling-delayed-over-risk-concerns http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/819-amsterdam-biienkorf-wants-metro-drilling-delayed-over-risk-concerns#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:54:07 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=819 Drilling for the North-South extension of the Amsterdam metro system is scheduled to start on March 11, but now warehouse De Bijenkorf has demanded the city first performs more research into the risks involved.

Persistent problems during the construction of underground stations for the metro line have already caused damage to several historical buildings.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/819-amsterdam-biienkorf-wants-metro-drilling-delayed-over-risk-concerns/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/817-cocaine-roses-intercepted-amsterdam http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/817-cocaine-roses-intercepted-amsterdam#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:12:47 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=817 Dutch police have smashed a drug smuggling operation after members of the National Crime Squad intercepted nine kilos (20 lb) of cocaine at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The drug was hidden among 20,000 long-stem red roses flown to the Netherlands from Colombia for Valentine's Day.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/817-cocaine-roses-intercepted-amsterdam/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/813-amsterdam-tourist-tax-raise-possible http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/813-amsterdam-tourist-tax-raise-possible#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:07:27 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=813 Pay up for the ferry to and from Amsterdam-North. Spend less on arts and culture. Raise real estate and tourist taxes, and make people pay more for parking permits. Budget cuts in the areas of education, healthcare, roadworks, and a sharp reducation in the number of civil servants.

Those are some of the options Amsterdam's Municipal Executive board will have to choose from in order to make sure the city will live within its budget while facing steep cuts over the next four years.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/813-amsterdam-tourist-tax-raise-possible/feed 0