"Ryan Cousineau" wrote in message
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For once, this is less of a joke than usual.

I'm going to be making a very brief stopover in Amsterdam on Thursday
and Friday, and want to know if there's anything especially noteworthy I
should see in and around town.

Last time I was passing through, I did the touristy-but-amusing two-hour
bus tour, which included a pass through the red light district and a
trip to the cheese shop/clog store (...) and a viewing of the Rembrandt
windmill (or a Rembrandt windmill, I can't remember).

We call it the Rembrandt house, and I never noticed it has wings or vanes.
Are you sure you're not confusing it with the Moulin Rouge in Paris?

So, with a day or so of tourism to grind through, any suggestions? We'll
probably slot in one of the major museums (my lovely bride has that part
sorted out), but I need to figure out the hard questions:

-Bols experience or Heineken experience: is either worth 10 Euros?

When I was student I earned money showing tourists around in the Heineken
brewery and I was always amazed most Americans really seemed to like the
beer. Of course I pretended to share their enthousiasm. It always brought me
a lot of tips.

y other cute little brewery/distillery tours that are worth the trip?

No

-any post-Tour crits in town that day?

Not as far as I know

should see?

Making a roundtrip of the canals seems to be a tourist trap, but it's really
the best way to see Amsterdam in short time.


Where's a good place to rent a tandem if we
have an hour or so to ride around?

You can rent a tandem at Rent a Bike at the Damstraat (near the Dam), and
probably also at the Central Station.

Also, I'd like to fit in, so if anyone can provide me with the lyrics to
the national anthem (I think it's called "Dutch-land uber alles" or
something like that), I'd appreciate it.

Close. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmus


Benjo