{"id":338,"date":"2009-06-22T04:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-06-22T04:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:58:34","slug":"day-28-touring-around-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: Touring Around Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26 2009, Nikolai Onken met me at Schiphol airport, and we had a good chance to drive around Amsterdam so I quickly got a nice feel of the city.  Amsterdam is a great city with a number of interesting historical buildings, and many many canals and bridges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3478605059\/\" title=\"Driving Around Amsterdam by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3623\/3478605059_5854780979.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Driving Around Amsterdam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3478631233\/\" title=\"Driving Around Amsterdam by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3661\/3478631233_35fb9da961.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Driving Around Amsterdam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3479433818\/\" title=\"Driving Around Amsterdam by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3358\/3479433818_964ed8935a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Driving Around Amsterdam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3479477512\/\" title=\"Driving Around Amsterdam by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/3479477512_97ec2c1172.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Driving Around Amsterdam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it just a few days before Queens Day, the city was quickly gearing up for festivities, with a fair setup in the park right outside my hotel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3479437690\/\" title=\"Driving Around Amsterdam by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3540\/3479437690_79b3662e0d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Driving Around Amsterdam\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went to Nikolai and Vicki&#8217;s new place for a great dinner.  Their building is brand new, so the elevator had a fair amount of tagging on temporary boards protecting the elevator from people moving in. We added our own Dojo tag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/3478684855\/\" title=\"Dojo Sticker in Nikolai's Elevator by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3603\/3478684855_48de5ab068.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dojo Sticker in Nikolai's Elevator\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a great dinner, I found my way back to the hotel via the tram system.  I am staying at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, the conference hotel for the SpringOne conference where I am speaking about Dojo.  The people in Amsterdam seem a bit more reserved and shy than in Australia and New Zealand, which surprised me a bit given that this is Amsterdam after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26 2009, Nikolai Onken met me at Schiphol airport, and we had a good chance to drive around Amsterdam so I quickly got a nice feel of the city. Amsterdam is a great city with a number of interesting historical buildings, and many many canals and bridges. As it just a few days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}