Shopping streets in Amsterdam

As every metropolis, Amsterdam has several different quarters – each of them with a special character and public. Shopping streets in Amsterdam also vary, depending on their location in town. Many small shops, with their own importing contacts all over the world, make shopping in Amsterdam even more exciting. Furthermore, as the whole city center is not big, you may just walk through all the shopping streets of this city in just one or two days.

 

SANDWITCHES & BAGUETTES

When I feel like eating tasty  baguette or sandwich I visit sandwitch bar located in the end of Damrak street. It`s a great place for lunch on the go. I always like to sit in Dam Square with my enormous baquette and observe surrounding world.

 

summer….

 

having holiday- no time for witing;)

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from diamonds to leather shoes ;)

Museumplein

The Museum quarter is arguably the cultural hub of the city, offering a kaleidoscope of activities and attractions. A stroll down the exclusive P.C. Hooftstraat, Pieter Cornelisz or Van Baerlestraat will take the fashionista into some of the world’s most chic couture houses. 🙂

From diamonds to leather shoes to designer handbags 😉 !!! 😉 , just don’t forget to take your credit card! Museum quarter also caters for children or even the child in us with its skateboard – park and wading pool, which in the winter doubles up as an ice rink. Another attraction of the district is Vondelpark where relaxing is the order of the day unless it is Queens Day or Uitmarkt when the park is swarming with hoards of visitors.

 

Hyde Park – ing during shopping :d

Last weekend I was in London to visit my sister. She took me to Hyde Park as she wanted to show place to relax in the CIty … yeah…

It`s true that….

It is the most prominent and famous London park. Surrounded from north with area plenty of youth hotels and hostels including Whiteleys shopping centre, with American Embassy, Bond Street, the Intercontinental hotel from east, this park has the best London location from where you can reach main shopping areas.

Being 360 acres in size it can take some time to cross it over. In summer time there is an option of renting a small boat and gently paddling in the lake, having refreshing drink or maybe fishing in certain allocated places.

but…

there`a a lot of people there because of it`s flame 🙂 So … i recommend it ….only when you are full of energy… 😉

 

ARC

The latest addition to the popular Reguliersdwarsstraat area is a large three-in-one. You can sip grand-cafe during the day, have a late breakfast, lunch. A restaurant during the evening, turnes in a trendy bar at night. It`s opened every day from 10 am to 1 am and during the weekend we dancing longer – till 3 o`clock in the morning!:)

 

The Jordaan

Amsterdam has a whole neighbourhood dedicated to flowers and plants: the Jordaan district was named after the French word for garden, “jardin”. In order to honour this curious origin, the quarter`s streets also received the name of wilderness leading actors, such as Rozengracht , Goudbloemstraat and Tuinstraat.

Around these paths, different scenarios respond to the general atmosphere: ample gardens, like the ones at Willet-Holthuysen and Van Loon museums, compliment smaller front ones with lovely pots of flowers adding their colours and enchanting parfum to the district.

 

Skinny Bridge

The famous skinny bridge across the river Amstel and opposite of the Carré theatre, is an Old Dutch design wooden bridge known as a double-swipe bridge. Tradition relates that the bridge was named after the sisters Mager, who were supposed to live on opposite sides of the river.

They are said to have had the wooden bridge built to make it easier to visit one another. However it appears more likely, that the original bridge acquired the name from being so narrow, that it was hard for two pedestrians to pass one along another.

Because of increasing the traffic on the skinny bridge, a wider bridge replaced the narrow one in 1871. Skinny Bridge is far not skinny anymore, but one of the most beautiful bridges of Amsterdam. At night many lights illuminate the bridge, then it becomes a very romantic place, popular with lovers and photographers.

 

De Nieuwe Kerk

De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam is famous for its much talked-about exhibitions. With hundred thousands of visitors every year, the church is one of the most attended exhibition locations in the Netherlands.

The large-scale exhibitions on treasures from other countries, cultures and religions are a household term to many people.

De Nieuwe Kerk is located in the middle of the city centre at Dam Square next to the Royal Palace.