July 2007

Monthly Archive

  • Finally my first Starbucks experience in Holland -

    The first Starbucks, well actually second, because the real first Starbucks in Holland is in the Nike HQ and for employees only, is in Schiphol Amsterdam Airport. And as I was going on holidays to Spain, I could finally visit it. Yeah!
    After checking in and going through the security check at the airport the […]

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  • Quick coffee at Puccini -

    After the big nachos at the Hard Rock Cafe, we decided we needed a coffee to stay awake after all that food. It was a stiff walk through all the shopping streets from Leidseplein to Waterlooplein, where we descended on the terrace of Puccini. Now Puccini is also a bonbon store with hand-made bonbons, […]

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  • Big lunch at Hard Rock Cafe -

    Never having been to a Hard Rock Cafe anywhere in the world in my life, today was a good time for a first visit to the one in Amsterdam! Summer was gracing Amsterdam a little bit, no rain and just a few clouds. So after we dogged the door bitch of the Hard Rock […]

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  • Having a coffee at Van Harte -

    After fleeing Bakker Nel, we went to a place we passed in the same street called Van Harte. It looked more inviting than Bakker Nel, so we decided to have a coffee here. The place was quite busy, but the crowd looked a bit wannabe trendy, so you have been warned.
    Two girls were running up […]

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  • Supermarket sandwich at Bakker Nel -

    Bakker Nel (Nel’s Bakery) in one of the Nine Streets just of Dam square, and has the same concept as the other Bakery shops popping up in Amsterdam, like Bakker Bertram and het Vlaamsch Broodhuys. Basicly they are a bakery selling loafs of bread and pastries and they have a few tables in the […]

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  • A quick dessert at Haagen-Dazs -

    The last few weeks the weather has been really terrible in Amsterdam. Rain, rain and more rain and sometimes a little sunshine. Not really summer, thank you global warming and changing rain patterns! As always we were having some wokfood before going to the cinema. But the movie started later than normal, so we had […]

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