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[still clearing my backlog \u2014 this is from about a week ago…]<\/em><\/p>\n Amsterdam is gorgeous. Take a cross between Boston & San Francisco, remove the hills & homeless and replace them with a canal every 2 blocks and you’ve pretty much got Amsterdam. The canal district is Becon Hill, the Red-Light District is a cross between Haight-Ashbury & the Combat Zone (only with more overt illigal-drug sellers on the street and the prostitutes solicit from inside heated rooms), and in this alternate universe Critical Mass won the war.<\/p>\n It’s very much my kind of town.<\/p>\n I happened to arrive the day of their 5th annual Museum Night<\/a>, where 39 museums are open from 7pm-2am all for one price, with special events at each and free water-ferry & trams between them. I must’ve hit 7 museums, the highlights being the black-gospel choir at the Bible Museum<\/a>, blacklight-painting exhibit at Rembrandhuis<\/a> and the lit-up Botanical Museum<\/a>. For continuity sake, I ended the night at the NEMO science museum to check out their Smart Fashion exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update:<\/b> pictures<\/a> are now up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [still clearing my backlog \u2014 this is from about a week ago…]<\/em><\/p>\n Amsterdam is gorgeous. Take a cross between Boston & San Francisco, remove the hills & homeless and replace them with a canal every 2 blocks and you’ve pretty much got Amsterdam. The canal district is Becon Hill, the Red-Light District is a cross between Haight-Ashbury & the Combat Zone (only with more overt illigal-drug sellers on the street and the prostitutes solicit from inside heated rooms), and in this alternate universe Critical Mass won the war.<\/p>\n It’s very much my kind of town.<\/p>\n I happened to arrive the day of their 5th annual Museum Night<\/a>, where 39 museums are open from 7pm-2am all for one price, with special events at each and free water-ferry & trams between them. I must’ve hit 7 museums, the highlights being the black-gospel choir at the Bible Museum<\/a>, blacklight-painting exhibit at Rembrandhuis<\/a> and the lit-up Botanical Museum<\/a>. For continuity sake, I ended the night at the NEMO science museum to check out their Smart Fashion exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n