{"id":1118,"date":"2008-11-24T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:38:28","slug":"amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Colorful<\/a>\"Bike<\/a>\"Ann<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a>\"Weak<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Canal<\/a>\"Canal\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Corner\"<\/a>\"Church\"<\/a>\"Modern<\/a><\/p>\n

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The thing to remember about Amsterdam is if you want coffee, go to a cafe’, not a coffee house.\u00a0 Coffee houses are where you get marijuana and you have to be 18 to go in.\u00a0 Coffee houses are all over the place and you pretty much know whenever you’re downwind of one.\u00a0 And if you see a red light in a window, turn the kid around and walk back the other way.\u00a0 The scenery is rich, the people are beautiful, the food is top notch, and history is pouring out of every doorway.\u00a0 Oh, and the bikes will run you down.\u00a0 If you hear a little bell behind you, get out of the way.\u00a0 The ICE or Inter City Express train from Dusseldorf to Amsterdam should have taken a little over 2 hours, but took closer to 3 hours today due to a derailment near the Amsterdam end of the link and a the requirement to transfer to a local train for part of the way.\u00a0 The ICE train is really fast and has pressurized compartments.\u00a0 Very smooth and quiet.\u00a0 We’d like to return to Amsterdam some day.\u00a0 We just scratched the surface this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-europe","7":"category-travel","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}