Question:
Where can I go and see or visit in Brussels and Amsterdam this weekend? Where can I shop?
wireless
2006-05-10 05:09:15 UTC
I am visiting Brussels and Amsterdam and planning to see as much as I can.
Four answers:
where_is_the_sun????
2006-05-11 04:26:11 UTC
Brussels



shopping: Sunday everything closed. The city center you are going to find shopping and sight seeing specially around the grand Place there are a lot of shops and like 500 meters there is Rue Nuef that is a whole shopping street.
mccall
2006-05-10 05:20:38 UTC
Shopping

By: Hanan bou najm Dleikan

Traditionally, shops and markets are closed all day Sunday and Monday mornings. Normal shopping hours are 09:00 or 10:00 to 18:00 (17:00 on Saturday) although some are now beginning to stay open later in the evenings and about half of the shops on the main shopping streets are even open on Sundays. There is late-night shopping on Thursdays until 21:00, when most shops on the main streets are open.

The main shopping areas are the Leidsestraat between the Leidseplein and Spui, and the Kalverstraat and Nieuwendijk, leading from the Munt Tower via the Dam to near the Central Station. There are large stores near the Munt Tower (V&D and Hema), and at the Dam (Bijenkorf and Magna Plaza). There is a large supermarket behind the Palace at the Dam, open until 22:00 7 days a week.

The Jordaan and the streets around it contain many small interesting individual shops. The PC Hooftstraat and district, near the museums, contains many of the more chic shops.

There is an interesting daily clothes and second-hand market around the City Hall and Opera; there is a busy cosmopolitan food and clothes market in the Albert Cuypstraat (trams 4, 6, 10 and 16). The flower market on the Singel (between the top of the Leidsestraat and the Munt Tower) is not to be missed (trams 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 14, 16, 24, 25).



Some things to do for free

•Take the free ferry behind central station to the other side of the IJ and go for a walk along the North Holland Canal.

•Walk up the roof of the New Metropolis and admire the view (follow the rail lines east from Central Station, and cross the footbridge to the big green building that looks like a ship).

•Go to the Begijnhof (entrance from the Spui, or round the corner in the Gedempte Begijnensloot)

•Visit the Historical Museum gallery (take the other exit from the Begijnhof and turn left).

•Wander along the Flower Market (on the Singel).

•Browse the Waterlooplein market (at the Waterlooplein).

•Visit the Albert Cuyp market (tram 10 to Frederiksplein, or 4, 16, 24, 25 to Albert Cuyp).

•Go to a free lunch concert in the Concertgebouw (Museumplein).

•Go up the tower to the cafe in the Kalvertoren shopping mall, and admire the view (Kalverstraat near the Munt).

•Go to the cafe in Metz and admire the view (corner of Leidsestraat and Keizersgracht).
anonymous
2016-12-20 23:21:12 UTC
Brussels could be the capital of Belgium and could be the principal seat of the Belgian Royal Family and, also the capital of the European Union and if you intend to know after that it this is actually the place hotelbye . Brussels is an amazingly small, easy-going, and human-sized town for all their importance. Unlike anthers city using their millions of tourists, Brussels is Belgium's principal financial and educational hub, gives the city a more workaday experience than other towns. Here, in Brussels, if you would choose to go to, you will receive a appropriate feel for Belgian life, particularly its wonderful restaurant and café culture. Though Brussels might not have the star attractions of other Belgian cities, the capital has ample to keep readers entertained for a day or two with a clutch of world-class museums and artwork galleries, along with quirkier views such as the Atomium, and some wonderful remnants of old structure in the previous town quarter.
alosscause2
2006-05-11 23:05:43 UTC
i am in belgium now antwerp is a good city also Amsterdam ROCKS!!! just got back from there on monday if your going for the red light zone xxx go to La Canna coffee shop biggest in Holland the sex museum funny as hell and the wax museum there in Amsterdam is good to enjoy your trip


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