Category: Amsterdam Life

New Welcome Banner 8

New Welcome Banner

A few months ago I wrote about the rather large welcome banner that can be found outside Amsterdam’s central train station (Link). I wrote about how it displayed a group of very unfriendly looking...

Clipboard Hell 16

Clipboard Hell

I have discovered a previously unknown level of hell. It does not appear in any religious text or scroll but that does not make it any less real. It just so happens to occupy...

Rebuilding Amsterdam 16

Rebuilding Amsterdam

Amsterdam seems to be in a state of constant renovation and re-building. Ever since I arrived in the city something, somewhere has been under going reconstruction (BlondeButBright has commented on this too). The big...

Zombies 21

Zombies

– Friday – 3:55am – 5 hours after the incident:No one really knows how it started. All they can do is unimaginatively suggest scenarios from late night horror movies they have seen. “Maybe it’s...

Amsterdam Is Falling Apart and Sinking 15

Amsterdam Is Falling Apart and Sinking

Twenty Seven percent of Holland is below sea level. Schiphol air port (the main airport for Amsterdam) is five meters below sea level. It’s only due to Dutch ingenuity that passengers don’t have to...

Don’t Fear The Mime

Don’t Fear The Mime

On a daily bases I walk through Dam Square in Amsterdam and on a daily bases I see something there that would strike fear into the hearts of most mortal men and women. In...