re: Let's Talk A Little Amsterdam!..

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If you are inside the tourist zone/Dam square/RLD it's packed and full of tourist traps. So is Budapest. So is Prague. So is the French Quarter. Walk five minutes in any direction, keep the beautiful, tree lined canals and gain the functional equivalent of a Magazine street every 3 blocks.

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I've spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, probably a total of 8 weeks over the last 10 years and I avoid the center as much as I can. The Jordaan (canals) is beautiful but much of it is touristy. But you can find some parts of it that are nice. But we usually stay and eat and drink further out on Overtoom and Kinkerstraat and the Pijp, Zuid and Westergas. We've even gone out to the Muslim projects. It's more interesting to me to see how and where locals live rather than the disneyish areas in the center.