Waiting the New Year in Amsterdam.. Winter holidays in the Netherlands

In November 2010 she graduated so my girlfriend since we both like to travel a lot and considering the fact that I hate the classic gifts, I gave him a journey of six days in the Netherlands x New Year's Eve, with me of course since it was sn already 4 times in holland and nn've never seen anything apart from Calabria and she is divertimento.Io d urbino so we found 30 night in my house in london (I work and she is studying in bo) x from 31 am. Of course I booked everything online cheaply as possible, but doing some moving around more.

 

waiting for 2011

We land in Brussels Charleroi at 12.00 on 31 (Ryanair 25 euros per head) and of course to get in the netherlands is a bit 'tough as the airport of Charleroi is located one hour from Brussels and Brussels is more than an hour from Alphen aan den Riin (city of 80000 inhabitants located halfway between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Sandton Hotel, a luxury 4 star hotel and I paid 220 for 5 nights in two, considering the period and the hotel are really very, very few.) then you should take a bus to Brussels and then train, but as we exit the terminal I see a queue of 50 m to buy tickets for the bus, we put ourselves in line and we see immediately from the first bus in the queue so I leave and make a Barbarian around to find a solution more quickly (because I wanted to be in the hotel before 17 and then go to dinner in Amsterdam for a decent time); sn course back winner in the sense that I found a taxi for seven to 70 euros brussels x ... and since we were in two other 5 people I had to find my own destination cn spend only 10 euros, the fact is that we have come to Brussels before we had seen from the bus and spending of even less, once the train from brussels Alpen aan den Riin x with only one change in Leiden (16 euros each).
17 arrived at the hotel to shower and a nice way to Amsterdam where she awaits New Year's Eve .... Of course the first impression of this wonderful city and very upsetting 'view of her beauty', so let's take a ride to the dam square and then immediately looking for a restaurant (nn before because I was able to book dinner on Dec 31 in the netherlands is a dinner like every day .... the fiesta comes later), it inspires an Argentinean restaurant where nn remember the name near Leidseplein, and having so much hungry we stop them on the fly (2 starters, 2 / 2 2 / 2 meat of fish, 2 medium-sized beers, 1 bottle of wine, bread, water, coffee and bitter $ 100).
At this point begins the evening (my intentions were to take the year of dam square and then go to the disco Escape to the nn one, but unfortunately I managed to book the disc via the Internet and is a big problem because new year's eve in 2005 I took a year always here on the Dam and then I turned all night trying to get in some hard without getting results apart from some minor disco pubs and coffee shops of course) so we are heading towards Dam Square was the ... 23:00 when we close the case and escape x nn was known to enter the queue and the ticket was still as pre-sales without thinking so hard we throw in from 23 until 5 o'clock in the morning and of course here I leave only imagine the level of fun. The return in Alphen was devastating because we were awake and 24 hours of debauchery .. But we did get to the haven of the hotel and was great at the end .. and so the last cigarette in the world of dreams to wake us up at 19.00 1 January.

Alpen aan den Rijn

Of course this was a day where nn is nothing to say since we woke up at 19.00, we visited a little cmq 'alp Riin aan den we went to eat at a restaurant greek and around midnight we returned to our comfortable hotel discard the last remnants of the night before, download photos and video on PC to have more memory in the pics. (Unfortunately you I download the PC is my charger with the classic Italian plug to 3 nn nn is fine hotels and retail outlets will have double and then the rest without a PC, cmq I decided to buy a double socket in Rotterdam The following day, but Unfortunately Between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and I found I shot 2 mediaworld nn) and Also Because The day before was an awakening is better to start the day ..

Rotterdam and Delft

We leave the hotel after breakfast un'abbondantissima (sn think it also managed to make 10 sandwiches iperfarciti secretly of course, we ate during the day and then every day the same thing), we arrive in Rotterdam just before ten and immediately buy the ' Holland Pass (k and a pass costs 35 euros per person and agrees to turn so much in the museums, attractions, discounts in shops and restaurants etc. .)...
As you exit the station, you understand that you have come in small European Manhattan, many skyscrapers and palaces built in good style make this city a real spettacolo.Penso a fan of modern architecture here is really food for his teeth. We begin to make a little 'passing close to the center at various monuments and shopping streets very special and often reduced to a pedestrian area, fortunately, up to the famous cube-shaped houses which are built dozens of apartments in a special way to see them appear but of course impossible to live in is completely normal at the end (since one of qst homes and turned into a museum just to give an account of how the Dutch can live in there), I would say that even if an attic in there and all nn would be to live in uncomfortable fact.
Let the cubic house we head towards the biggest port of Europe and spend a couple of hours wandering around looking a bit 'all that surrounds us. Let us note that he saw things more special Rotterdam (at least cm says the guide) so we head towards the Euromast which is a tower 185 meters high. We pay 8 euros each, and immediately brings us a lift in the middle of the structure about 100 meters from the ground where there are many restaurant and attraction built in a circular high-altitude .. and already a sight to see on each side the whole city and the port No, but for those who suffer from vertigo, there is another glass elevator that rises to the top. We of course go and immediately begins to speak the guide but we understood a word nn so begins the climb ... the glass wall is a show that takes you right up with a porthole under your feet where you see the city that leaves more and more ... . come on, this kind of elevator (going up by the turn like a corkscrew 360 °) starts to make movements very, very sharp and I can tell you that at 180 meters in height if not a bit afraid of heights' of you are scared but I immediately realize that they were all quiet, so I assume that everything was under control and that perhaps the leading voice had also said the start so I relax and I enjoy the fantastic panorama.Ok now we have the overview of this city after all, so we start to wander the city until 19.00 We leave in half an hour even scendiam Rotterdam and the train to Delft, the city is not large cm, however, and very cute and follows the classic Dutch style invaae by bridges and canals ... an hour and a bat has been more than enough to see a little 'Delft so we head for our dinner .. Alphen because I love the turkish kebab and eleven return to the hotel for a little' relaxation ..

Amsterdaaaaaam

Arrive in fantastic central station of Amsterdam about nine, breakfast Grenn House soon after take a bus with glass walls throughout the city that runs through all the most famous places in Amsterdam (very useful as it was also the driving in Italian), to the 11.00 stop at the factory of the diamonds that make us go and offer us a drink .. finished the tour by bus at about 12:00 we head towards the NEMO science museum (I do not dwell in detail because it is something absurd, strange technology that you see in there ... is a must see ...), we spend a very pleasant couple of hours to play cm and 2 children on the streets of Amsterdam to wander for a few hours, is 17 and a fatigue little 'begins to be felt, the last leg of our day is the Anne Frank House where you can admire all that is his story. Leaving the house of Anne Frank, we draw near to stopping station area souvenir shops, coffee shops and everything that makes the streets of Amsterdam unicheeeeeeee. Tonight also arranged between a fast food dinner and the other at 23.00 and returns at the hotel.

Amsterdaaaaaaaaam

As good tourists we are already back at nine in Amsterdam Central (Alphen it takes more or less an hour and costs 10 euros round trip) .. today is the last day in the capital so I prepare a program that tries to bring in our memories things more beautiful than to see everything as AMST cm anywhere else is impossible in a few days. The first stage is to histirycal museum where you can see everything possible and imaginable in the history of this fantastic city in the last 200 years. We remain nell'historycal m. For just over 2 hours, after which we head for the ICE BAR ICE BAR ... what the ??... Well I say that is something that no images can exist in a city that is located away from the north pole. . (cn is a bar ... the first two main rooms have room service style is the regular bar decorated in a style where the ice is the first drink, when it comes time to enter the second you put jackets, gloves and hats, and Eskimos you enter a room of up to 50 square meters made from 35 tons of ice and carved work, all in ice but seriously all the glasses even if you're talking stretches the drink, chairs, sculptures, really everything, I could nn believe it and the icing on the cake came when the girl's guide starts with a movie in wide screen and 3D glasses that makes you think seriously about 'where we arrive, but if the technology advances of these steps?' .... UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE.

Released by ICE bars we go to visit an old Dutch house luxury 4 Euri ticket and this will only say the word LUXURY .. the face of who pays the mortgage ... haha

Are 15.00 and finally to my girlfriend but unfortunately for me it's time to go to the museum of Van Gogh I can not do anything, I understand that it is one of the best painters of history, but for me every minute in there was a real torture .. Then my girlfriend (very fond of the genre) has watched every single painting in the details and leave only imagine my sclero .. but I can say that he was also the museum of Van Gogh if I understood. Barbara not to give him no time to tell me that she had come to visit that we are already out with the fifth and the nos turned to the Heineken Experience. The Heineken Experience is the factory where he was born Heineken beer .. and you can see all the way to the birth of this beer tastes by making small step .. also there are many exhibitions of everything about this brand and many multimedia workstations where you can leave your memory is very burlesque send it via email. A SHOW MARKED HEINEKEN Ah ... I must tell you also that if nn dall'heineken experience definitely nice to get out get out your happy drunk. ABSOLUTELY DO. At the sound of beer so we go out and make the 20:00 we go to eat (tonight being the last restaurant) and we stop to Amsterdam Damstreet between one thing and another until 23.00 when a heavy heart greetings what to me is the capital of I say money is SOON

Back to Italy

Today the revival is not the best because it is the last day and at 19.00 we have the flight Dusseldorf (Germany ryan air flight to the border 15 Euri each) bologna. So we leave our beautiful Hotel (oh I forgot that the hotel is near the central station of Alphen and there is a great multi-storey car park bicycles cn apple-shaped ABSURD TO SEE ITALIAN X 1.) And take the train to Utrecht. On the way out of the window you can see many typical windmills and believe me many rivers canals and small lakes in a vast green plain surrounded by little snow left over from the previous week. We arrive in Utrecht in a hour or so and start exploring the city which is very nice. The style is the classic Dutch channels, but there are several monuments stands the cathedral with a large torre.Poco more than two hours are enough to visit the center so we go to the station to catch the train to where we need to take Nijgmen a shuttle to the airport. and yes, because unfortunately our holiday is over and we return to our beautiful Italy which unfortunately seems to have stopped to watch the development of other nations.

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MAIN EXPENDITURE 2 PERSONS
FLIGHT: A / R: 80 Euros in
AIRPORT SHUTTLE: A / R 50 Euri
5 NIGHTS HOTEL: 220 Euri
TRAINS BELGIUM HOLLAND: 35 Euros in
TRAINS HOLLAND: 40 Euri (only my girlfriend, I have not done this because now I have to dribble experienced controllers since the Dutch trains are 2 levels)
PASS HOLLAND: EURO 70 (ALL museums and attractions except Heineken Experience which has cost 12 Euri head fell nell'holland pass.)