Amsterdam Historical Museum

Amsterdam

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August 10th 2005
We arrived in Amsterdam on Saturday. We really had no fixed plans... just a few ideas we extracted from Dan's "Let's go" Europe guide book. We took the tram from Amsterdam's central station to our hostel -- Inner Amsterdam Hostel -- located in the southwestern part of Amsteram. It was a reasonably nice place... like most hostels we've encountered to this point... with some kind of a bar, some k ... read more

Europe » Netherlands » North Holland » Amsterdam

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more