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Raindog Harry | 08.11.2004 12:38 | Proposed Place To Meet Thinking about beer, and about the dates of the concerts approaching, and about the promise, as a local (although I left Amsterdam about 11 years ago now) to propose a possible meeting place: Yesterday with a friend of mine I went to a concert in Amsterdam of Nick Lowe ("I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass", "Half a Boy and Half a Man"), and we ended up in a pub in the oldest part of Amsterdam, called "Zeedijk" - At the address Zeedijk, number 17, there is a (small) real Amsterdam pub called De Roode Baron (I will doublecheck this name and the address later). Just now I was thinking that this area would be quite appropriate, as this is the area where sailors used to go for drinks, girls, fightings. Before you back off, this area used to be tough, but has been renovated some years ago, it is pretty much controlled now by surveilling cops I think. Maybe the safest place in Amsterdam to go nowadays ;-)) Anyway, it is just a proposition. The advantage of this area is that there are a lot of pubs in this street, plus a lot of places to have something to eat, a lot of Asian small restaurants, Chinese, Thai, etc. Again, fully fitting the Tom Waits atmosphere. As everywhere in Amsterdam, one should of course not let one's purse hang out of one's pockets for everyone to see, but that goes for other places too all over the world. Another thing I was thinking of is that "De Roode Baron" in English would be "The Red Baron", and that, if pronounced without teeth, sounds like "The Red Barn" - hope we will be able to leave the place with the same number of people that entered it ;-))) - So: anybody interested to meet there?? It is not too far from Carre, I can sort out the time needed to walk there, I would say 15 to 20 minutes at most??. In the direct area of Carre there are not really nice pubs (as far as I know). Apart from de "Zeedijk" area, there are of course our two famous squares "Leidseplein" and "Rembrandt-plein", also with many pubs, but these are more a tourist area, although some good places can be found there as well. Personally I think I would prefer the Zeedijk area for the reasons mentioned. But I find it difficult to decide for a different group of people with possibly different tastes, ages, etc. One thing that unites us though!! P.S.: The place mentioned is rather small, would be filled up with 20, 25 people ;-), but like I said, more pubs next door... Myself I will probably pop in there on the 21 Nov. before, not after, the concert (I will check whether they will be open all day/evening, and whether they will be open on Sunday 21st, ai, writing this I now wonder whether they WILL be open on Sunday??) I may pop in there on the 19th as well, but not sure yet, as I go with a friend who does not write on this forum. - Information to be continued... Raindog Harry |