Pattaya beach bay & city views is a collection of photos from Pattaya bay & the surrounding area. Here’s what I see each day from my condo, best view I have had from any of my previous homes.
Pattaya Beach Bay at low tide
From July for a few months we get very low tides and the beach looks better than it really is.
Every day they line up in their hundreds to go Para Sailing and to visit Koh Larn island.
Boats everywhere
This sight is repeated every day of the year on Pattaya beach bay.
Bali Hi Wharf south Pattaya
In the background the building under construction is now 50 floors high (as of September 2014) Currently shrouded under controversy due to alleged unauthorized changes to the original plan.
To the left of the Holiday Inn, the building with the green light, is Markland. I live on the 20th floor with views of Pattaya beach bay.
Looking south from Markland.
The opposite view from the previous photo, the building with all the lights is the Pattaya Hilton. My friend Kayoko fromTokyois enjoying the wonderful view with a Japanese beer.
This is a very common sight during the wet season.
Ok, lets fix it
The rainy season in August & September plays havoc with the beach, Pattaya drains & gutters can’t handle the incredible downpours which overflow and wash away the sand.
The Beach Rd sculpture shows several seagulls, I have lived opposite the beach for several years and have never seen a seagull here, lots of pigeons but no seagulls. 🙂
A balloons eye view of Pattaya beach bay
This is attached by cable to the Royal Gardens shopping mall.
Magbificent cloud
Beautiful clouds over Pattaya Beach Bay.
A split sunset
What an amazing sunset, it only covers half the beach & bay.
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Unique Pattaya hotel Siam @ Siam is totally fascinating, I don’t often write a post on a single hotel but Siam @ Siam is so architecturally different it is worth sharing. Perched on the corner of Soi 2 & 2nd Rd North Pattaya across the road from Big C shopping mall.
Here are my friends enjoying the magnificent view from the roof of the hotel.
Top floor
Each night they show movies on a huge screen so you can relax on a comfortable lounge with a cocktail and watch a movie under the stars at Pattaya hotelSiam @ Siam.
Movies on the roof
You have a choice, watch a movie or gaze at the best view in Pattaya.
Get your feet wet here.
On a hot Pattaya night cool off with your feet in the water.
The Car Bar on the ground floor.
Wonderful spectacular unique design in the Car Bar.
As you can see the design is like no other Pattaya hotel.
Big cock at the Car Bar
The red rooster on guard.
Big Fish restaurant on 6th floor
I dine at the Big Fish every week, they serve the best lamb Massaman curry I have ever had.
Massaman curry
THEY USE A SLOW COOKED LAMB SHANK, THE MEAT LITERALLY FALLS OFF THE BONE, DELICIOUS.Pattaya is a city with endless choices of great food & restaurants.
Phad Thai at the Big Fish
Possibly the best known Thai dish in the world, beautifully presented at Siam @ Siam.
Big Fish restaurant with Oay.
If you look over Oay’s shoulder you will see the sculpture of a guy holding a big fish, you got it, that’s where the restaurant name came from. 🙂
Big Fish
The hotel fit out and theme is really quite remarkable.
Back to the roof
The infinity pool on the roof.
Cocktails on the top floor
Enjoy a cocktail while you take in the view of the city of Pattaya.
High risk work
Just before the building was completed this guy was working without a safety net. 🙂
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The building in the middle is the Holiday Inn, on the left is the Amari Hotel which is another very good five star hotel. Use THIS LINK to book for a very good room rate.
Sutus Court is a great budget hotel right i the heart of one of Pattaya’s main bar areas, just use THIS LINK for a terrific room rate. 420/100 Moo 9 Soi Buakhao.
This is the view from Horizons the amazing rooftop bar. A great five star hotel located opposte the beach & above the Central Festival shopping mall. Just book through THIS LINK for an excellent room rate.
Pattaya Best Sunsets Thailand are from my balcony overlooking the gulf of Thailand or from Horizon bar on the top floor of the Hilton, I am so lucky as I see so many from my Pattaya condo. The one above was August 18 2013. Very orange in colour compared with the purple below.
Sabai Wing Soi 1, 3 swimming pools and nice rooms, 100 meters from BigC, great value at only $23 usd per night as of August 15. I live in the high-rise in the background, Markland. For a great room rate book here.
This is not a travel blog, it is part of my personal photo history.
Pattaya flesh eating fish
Pattaya flesh eating fish seemed to be the focus on my two visits to Thailand in 2010, the first trip was mid January to meet Bill Austin & Joan Baptiste, my friends from England who were on their way to Australia for the first time.
The Cherry Bar has been my favorite Thai beer bars since 2003.
Beer bars LK Metro.
One of the good Thai beer bars in busy LK Metro in Pattaya. Greg Johnstone (2nd from left) has been a friend of mine for 25 years, we both lived on the Gold Coast in Australia.
Cheers dears
Greg does enjoy a drink with the girls, just being a good boss I guess. 🙂
Ah! life in Pattaya, someone has to do it. 🙂
As you can see, I really love living in Pattaya. LK Metro has many good bars & restaurants. Across the road from Billabong is i-Rovers another good sports bar. Billabong also has good cheap hotel rooms if you want to be in the middle of all the action. Book through AGODA for excellent rates. Low cost rooms are also available at i-rovers.
While on the subject of fun in Patttaya, here I am squeezed between two lovely ladies at the Atlantic one of the best Thai beer bars in 2nd rd.
When can I start having fun?
Out of control at the Jasmine beer bar in Soi 3.
Alan Kendall & a hot babe.
Alan is an Aussie who seems to fit right in to the Pattaya scene.
The golfers like the Atlantic Bar
Back in 2010 the golfers used to gather at the Atlantic bar Friday nights to drink beer and exaggerate about their amazing shots on the course that day. A very nice bunch of guys from all over the world, sadly they have now found a new venue for their after golf drinks.
Enjoying a beer at Gulliver’s with Alan Kendall
Gulliver’s is an excellent sports bar about 100 meters from y condo.
Pattaya flesh eating fish, Tony Murphy
Apart from the Thai beer bars the latest fad in Pattaya and other parts of the world is “Flesh-Eating Fish“ Performing ‘Pedicures’“, here is my friend Tony trying it out. I notice in the U.S. the process costs $45, in Pattaya it’s only $7.
When I was in Thailand 2010 little did I realize I would be living on the 20th floor ofMarkland Condo from October 2011 until now in April 2016.
Soi 4 foot massage
One of the great benefits of visiting or living in Thailand are the fabulous foot massages. The lady with the lovely smile is still working in this same parlour now in 2014.
The magnificent Mantra
My favourite restaurant in the whole world. The Sunday brunch is the best buffet I have ever had, everything from Alaskan crab, French oysters, NZ lamb, Japanese sushi, etc etc. There are seven different kitchens to choose from. Sadly the Amari Hotel made a stupid decision to close this magnificent restaurant in 2018.
The fabulous Mantra restaurant, Amari hotel in Pattaya Thailand.
I have been visiting the Thai beer bars & go go clubs at the infamous Nana Plaza since 1996 and have seen many changes. Back then there was about 10% LadyBoys, in 2010 that had risen to 25% now in 2014 there seems to be 50%.
The Beergarden near Walking St Pattaya
A very good venue for low cost food with a million dollar view. Lots of TV screens that seem to play music videos from the 80s.
Ice on the left with her friend Na.
I met Ice a couple of years ago when she was dancing at Nana Plaza, a very sweet lady indeed.
This is Pang (number 59) from the Honey Pot.
Another sweet lady who worked at the Honey Pot in Soi 2. Sadly both her and the Honey Pot have disappeared.
My brother Warren at the Cherry Bar.
My brother visits Pattaya every year, in February we discovered a new beach side village near Rayong called Mae Pim, check out my photo blog here.
Sunday brunch at the Mantra.
Another great lunch at the Mantra with a bunch of friends is September 2010.
Beautiful girl in Soi 3.
Now in 2016 there does not seem to be as many attractive girls in the bars around North Pattaya as there used to be.
Gorgeous girl in Jasmine bar Soi 3.
Half the bars in Soi 3 have closed and now A1 hotel is building across the road so in the next year or so I think most will be closed.
Gang of four
Trevor Loersch, Phil Avalon, David Herd & Alan Kendall.
Warren, the boys & the Muslim girls
Now in March 2016 I am sad to say our great friend Lenny is very ill battling cancer. Keep up the good fight Lenny.
Sad to say Lenny lost the battle, RIP my friend.
Dinner in Soi 6, Ray, Lenny Warren & David
The Queen Victoria hotel in Soi 6 serves very good food at a reasonable price.
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Pattaya Beach live webcam only shows you a small part of this great holiday location. Pattaya is a city of extremes, anything your heart desires is available here, from fabulous five star hotels & restaurants to down & dirty backstreet beer bars offering sex drugs & rock & roll. OK, so we admit there is sex in the city but there is so much more to this wonderful seaside resort, four million tourists each year can’t be wrong. Only 90 minutes south of Bangkok airport and thousands of miles from stress.
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Sabai Wing Soi 1, 3 swimming pools and nice rooms, 100 meters from BigC, great value at only $23 usd per night as of August 15. I live in the high-rise in the background, Markland. For a great room rate book here.
Pattaya webcam only shows you a small part of this great holiday location. Pattaya is a city of extremes, anything your heart desires is available here, from fabulous five star hotels & restaurants to down & dirty backstreet beer bars offering sex drugs & rock & roll. OK, so we admit there is sex in the city but there is so much more to this wonderful seaside resort, four million tourists each year can’t be wrong. Only 90 minutes south of Bangkok airport and thousands of miles from stress.
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Five Star hotels in Pattaya overlooking Pattaya beach are The Amari, The Holiday InnTheHilton & theDusit.Amari has the nicest grounds & pool area + the magnificent Mantra restaurant, the Hilton is above an upmarket shopping mall & is the most central, Holiday Inn has the best pizzas, the Dusit in North Pattaya has the best Dim Sum.
Please remember what you have probably already read in the press, hiring a jet ski is flirting with danger, 80% of the operators are running scams, when you return the ski they will claim you have damaged it and try to extort huge sums of money from you. Sadly many police are part of these scams as well, they will pretend they are on your side and negotiate the asking price down from say 60,000 Baht ($2,000) to 20,000 Baht, in Thailand unfortunately they have turned corruption into an art form. However it is no worse than Indonesia, India or Brazil, so just be careful.
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There are some great budget hotels in Pattaya from as little as $25 per night. You will get some unbeatable rates on this site through Agoda. Just click on the photo to see lots of options.
First trip Pattaya 1980 with my good friend Rob Symonds. We stayed at the Royal Cliff Hotel which had only been open for 2 years. The photo of the long-tail boat in the header was taken in May 2014 however the fishing boats in 1980 were virtuously the same design, as you will see in this post.
Pattaya Thailand March 1980 was like visiting a sleepy fishing village. Even before the start of the Vietnam War, American GIs had put Pattaya on the map as the best beach destination to unwind and indulge. But when large numbers of troops began to arrive at the neighbouring Ban Sattahip Air Base in 1968, things really picked up in Pattaya. Also known as U-Tapao International Airport, the army base at Sattahip was heavily staffed and used by the US Air Force throughout the Vietnam conflict.
Prior to jet skis
Notice that well before jet skis the little speed boats were powered by a 25 hp engine.
It all started when a group of 500 American soldiers stationed at the military base in Korat were driven to Pattaya on 29th June 1959 for a week of rest and relaxation (R&R). They rented several houses at the southern end of the beach from a prominent Thai, Lord Sunthorn, thus opening Pandora’s Box for this sleepy fishing village. Despite their short stay, the GIs had a great time and raved about the place. The word spread among other American soldiers stationed in the region and Pattaya quickly became a hot alternative to the concrete sprawl of Bangkok.
Where are the deck chairs?
The beach was very natural on my first trip to Pattaya in in 1980, hardly any deck chairs & umbrellas.
Para-sailing in 1980
Some things never change.
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First trip Pattaya 1980
To say walking St was different is an understatement, I have seen this photo of mine used many times in the local press & blogs, however I did take it & you can see my friend Rob Symonds walking towards me.
Here is the original print.
It is used many times by other people without giving credit to me. It was taken in March 1980;
Walking St as it was in 1980
Life in Pattaya was much simpler then. 🙂
Welcome was still the “word”
Here are some gorgeous girls waiting for a Farang to buy them a drink, the greeting was the same then as it is now, “hello welcome”. Some things never change. 🙂
The Royal Cliff was the most modern hotel in Pattaya in 1980. On fact it had a ten pin bowling alley and above that was a body to body soapy massage parlour, my first introduction to that particular pleasure.
Life did not get much better than this on our first trip to Pattaya.
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How cute is this one?
Sadly however I soon discovered she was a LadyBoy, remember this was my first trip to Thailand & it took me a couple of days to work out who were the females & who were not. 🙂
Another one. 🙂
Looking back now this one looked more like a LadyBoy than the 1st one, by now however I was becoming educated fast. 🙂
No, he didn’t fine me.
Even though I was not wearing a helmet, in fact in those days nobody wore one.
Manila in 1980 on the way to Thailand.
Here we are in Manila training heavily for our trip to Pattaya.
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Over the years many friends have said that in this photo I look like a Miami drug dealer, people can be so cruel. 🙂
Russian babes go to the Pattaya Beach Club and so do I. 🙂
Russian babes Pattaya Beach Club
Russian babes Pattaya Beach Club at the Pullman hotel, this is the best beach-side bar in Pattaya for Russian beach babes. Happy hour is at 5 pm every day & cocktails cost about $3.
The bikini is a perfect fit
One of my favorite pastime is watching the Russian beach babes walking along the beach while I’m drinking a nice cold beer.
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A quick shower before a swim.
I wonder if I could help her?
Wow! is the only word I can think of.
Live webcam from my balcony at Markland overlooking Pattaya beach in Thailand.
Every time friends come to town or if someone has a birthday we wind up at the Beach Club. The big fellow 2nd from the left is Nathan Corbett who has been world champion in Muay Thai boxing 11 times in 3 different weight divisions.
The best butt in town
Sadly now in 2020 not many Russians are visiting Pattaya.
The scenery does not get much better than this.
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Looks good standing up as well 🙂
Tell that man to stop taking my photo
OK I did get sprung taking photos of this gorgeous Russian babe. However her boyfriend looked a bit of a wuss and I was with my English friend Bill, an ex para military regiment leader who used to be on the boxing team, and still does some bouncing at a couple of venues in Trowbridge. 🙂
My 3 English bodyguards Simon, Bill & Chris.
My back up muscle enjoying some cocktails.
The beautiful Beach Club.
You have a choice between swimming in the ocean or either of the two pools.
Lots of Russians in Wongamat.
Wongamat beach is just north of Pattaya beach, it is quieter and much cleaner.
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Sunset at the Beach Club.
The best place in Pattaya to watch the sunset.
Don’t walk away Natasha
The story of my life, they always seem to be walking away. 🙂
Wongamat Beach
Beach club is in front of the very tall building on the left.
I love a pink bikini
Pink just became my favourite colour. 🙂
It’s time for a swim
Please don’t break the spell, stay right where you are.
Come and join me
Ok, if you insist.
OK guys, photo opportunity
Now anyone can see how gorgeous these Russian babes are, however if you want to find out who are the sexiest beach babes in the world you need to travel down to the southern hemisphere to Brazil, they are the best.
Night at the Beach Club
These high rise buildings surround the Beach Club.
Actually this is Cosy beach, the Russian babes like it here as well.
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Love the bikini
The eye candy does not get much better than this.
Words fail me
All I can say is……….
My favourite selfie
An overcast Friday morning in Pattaya did not stop this princess from going to the beach to take 100 selfies.
Taken March 24 2017.
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Pattaya – Hua Hin Mini Van
If you are in Pattaya and want to go to Hua Hin there is now a daily minivan service, they have offices in Pattaya, Hua Hin and Cha Am, for Hua Hin the mini van leaves at 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and takes 4 hours to get to Hua Hin, priced at only 400baht.
The Pattaya office is on South Pattaya Road, if your heading towards Sukhumvit road go over 3rd Road and past Soi Ko Pai/ Soi Bongkot and it’s on the left hand side at soi 10, which is around 300 meters or more from Sukhumvit Road.
Pattaya Office 088 709 2365
Hua Hin Office 088 709 2364
Cha Am Office 089 254 1399
Wealthy Play St Tropez, a place for sheer opulence, people watching, & great restaurants and bars. Please remember to take your money with you. 🙂
Boules-type games are traditional and popular in France, Italy and Croatia, and are also popular in some former French colonies. In those countries, boules games are often played in open spaces (town squares and parks) in villages and towns. Dedicated playing areas for boules-type games are typically large, level, rectangular courts made of flattened earth, gravel, or crushed stone, enclosed in wooden rails or back boards.
Paella anyone?
The huge place des Lices Market is a kaleidoscope of everything from fruit and veg to antique mirrors and slippers. It’s truly legendary and It is studded with plane trees, cafés and (when the market’s not on) pétanque players.
Saturday is market day in St Tropez
The seaside resort town Saint Tropez is still very popular with the tourists, although the jetset and the in-crowd have long since left it behind. Set on the lovely blue water of the Bay of Saint-Tropez, this modern version of a medieval town is most popular for the line of yachts along the quay, and the facing line of terrace cafés, divided by a parade of strolling tourists.
Look at me, look at me. 🙂
Naturally all the chairs face the footpath so customers can ogle & gawk at the people passing, while pretending not too. 🙂
The famous Cafe de Paris.
There is of course another famous Cafe de Paris in Monte Carlo.
So many restaurants & so little time. 🙂
I guess I’m stating the obvious however you can get far better value for your money by visiting the restaurants a couple of blocks away from the sea front.
The old part of town is quite fascinating.
Behind the cafés, the small streets and old buildings are picturesque, but they’re more popular for the multitude of shops and restaurants than historical significance.
The back streets are interesting
Very interesting back streets of ST Tropez.
Wealthy Play St Tropez
There are always luxury yachts cruising in the area.
Narrow lanes & arches
I’m sure this arch has not changed for hundreds of years.
L’Olive St Tropez
Very good food at L’Olive at 9 Rue Aire du Chemin, 83990 Saint-Tropez.
A very brassy lady
Surely this can’t be Bridgette Bardot. 🙂
Could this be a Trojan Horse?
I really like this sculpture near St Tropez wharf.
Mt travelling companions Deb and Jodie heading for a night out, some guys bought them drinks and Deb in return shouted a round, 110 Euros later, some smelling salts were required for her to recover and fight another day.
There is always someone with a bigger boat.
Imagine the cost of filling this east up with fuel. 🙂
You can really smell the money here. 🙂
Wealthy Play St Tropez”.
Super boat
Certainly not the prettiest boat in the harbour.
If you can’t afford a boat, get a bike.
Not much traffic here so a bike would be a safe way to see the city.
Wan Chai Hong Kong in mid February, it was so cold, you must be joking I thought. Last week the temperature was 18 degrees, when I arrived it was 8. The first stop on my “seven Super Cities” adventure in a city I had not visited since 1980, 34 years ago.
Wan Chai Hong Kong
Wan Chai Hong Kong is one of the busiest commercial areas in Hong Kong with offices of many small and medium-sized companies. Wan Chai North features office towers, parks, hotels and an international conference and exhibition centre. As one of the first areas developed in Hong Kong.
Gloucester Rd Wan Chai
Wan Chai’s Gloucester Road, a east-west trunk route along the northern coast, is connected to Cross-Harbour Tunnel, the first undersea tunnel in Hong Kong. This tunnel is connected to the south by a direct viaduct from its landing point on Hong Kong Island to the Aberdeen Tunnel towards the southern coast.
Wan Chai Hong Kong opposite my hotel
Prostitution has been one of the oldest occupations in Wan Chai. There are numerous historical accounts of women trading sex for western merchandise, especially from visiting sailors who got off the trading ships and visited this area.
Lockhart Rd Wan Chai
In the 1960s, Wan Chai became legendary for its exotic night life, especially for the US servicemen resting there during the Vietnam War.
One Aussie, one Kiwi & 3 Filipinos.
For bars, restaurants and night clubs Wan Chai Hong Kong is a great part of the city. The area towards the western end of Lockhart Road, including a small part of the parallel Jaffe Road, is one of Hong Kong island’s two main bar districts (the other being the more upmarket Lan Kwai Fong in Central). Once considered primarily as a red light district, this area is now more diverse with bars, pubs, restaurants and discos.
A number of the raunchier bars still remain, however, their doorways festooned with women from Thailand and the Philippines. The famous novel and film “The World of Suzie Wong” sets many scenes in this area. The bar district has been popular with visiting sailors and navies, when Fenwick Pier, west of the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, was in use as a military pier.
Wan Chai Hong Kong
Only a 10 minute walk from my hotel to the ferry.
Short ride across the bay
About a 30 minute ferry ride to Star terminal at Kowloon.
Hong Kong bus
Or is it a tram?
View of Hong Kong island from the ferry.
The island is home to many of the most famous sights in Hong Kong, such as “The Peak“,Ocean Park, many historical sites and various large shopping centres. The mountain ranges across the island are also famous for hiking. The northern part of Hong Kong Island together with Kowloon forms the core urban area of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong island from the ferry.
The island is often referred to locally as “Hong Kong side” or “Island side”. This description was formerly applied to many locations (e.g. ‘China-side’ or even ‘Kowloon Walled City-side’) but is now only heard in this form and ‘Kowloon side’, suggesting the two sides of the harbour.
Star Ferry pier in Kowloon
Quite a contrast between these two vessels.
Star Ferry Pier
The “Star” Ferry Company, is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, betweenHong Kong Island and Kowloon. It was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, adopting its present name in 1898.
Kowloon
Large-scale development of Kowloon began in the early 20th century, with the construction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and the Kowloon Wharf, but because of Kowloon’s close proximity to Kai Tak Airport, building construction was limited by flight paths. As a result, compared to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon has a much lower skyline.
One Peking building
Located at the heart of the Tsimshatsui district, One Peking has stunning panoramic views of Victoria harbour.
Wan Chai Hong Kong Lotus Vietnamese restaurant
Good food and service at this nice Vietnamese restaurant at 118 Jaffe Road, Wan Chai Hong Kong.
Mango & sticky at the Lotus.
One of my favourite deserts in Wan Chai winter Hong Kong.
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles are what comes to mind when I think of this great city. The red light district attracts tourists like moths to a flame. Marijuana is freely available if that’s your thing, & every time you walk down the street you are in danger of being run down by Cyclists who believe the roads & footpaths were built exclusively for them to use.
In Amsterdam, this is the only windmill I saw, I know there are many more in the country however my 6 days were spent exploring the city.
Central Station
My journey started & ended here at the very busy Central station. I arrived by train from the airport and my wonderful B & B was only a five minute walk, then 6 days later I caught the fast train to Brussels.
Did I mention bicycles by any chance?
Authorities say there are well over 600.000 bikes in Amsterdam. The population is 747,290 in Amsterdam proper, and 2,158,592 in the metropolitan area.
Opposite Central station
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than one hundred kilometers of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.
Lots of good restaurants
There are hundreds of restaurants to choose from in Amsterdam, just wander around until one catches your eye.
Fresh seafood in Amsterdam.
THE FRESH SEAFOOD LOOKED FANTASTIC.
Late night cafe
This is one of my favourite Amsterdam photos, I was wandering around the back alleys looking for somewhere to dine.
Ava Thomas, Italian restaurant
This Italian restaurant was the one I chose, nice food at a reasonable price.
The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper — one of the world’s best-known Cannabis cafés — is no longer selling cannabis, hash, or related products. The coffee shop located in landmark building across from Central Station, is one of the first of more than two dozen such shops in and around the Red Light District that are to be closed down over the next few years.
Amsterdam want to create a “grand entrance” — Amsterdam’s ‘visiting card’ — to include high quality hotels, shops and restaurants — and coffee shops simply don’t fit into that picture. To make this ‘grand entrance’ a reality, in December 2007 Amsterdam introduced Coalition Project 1012. Named after the postal code for downtown Amsterdam, the project is designed to clean up the entire medieval center of the city. That includes the Red Light District, where the city has been working to take back control over the area from what one alderman referred to as ‘riff-raff.’
The project’s goals are to ban window prostitution from all but two locations, close down businesses set up with (or ‘susceptible to the involvement of’) white-washed money, reduce the number of coffee shops in the area, combat organized crime, and to promote the ‘Red Carpet’ vision.
At the introduction of Project 1012, then-alderman Lodewijk Asscher said that Amsterdam wants to recapture the historic city center in order to “give it back to the Amsterdammers.” Clearly, it’s not just the locals the City council was thinking about, but also well-heeled tourists more interested in fine dining and upscale shopping than in using soft drugs. Sadly if this eventuates Amsterdam will never be the same. NB: Coffeeshop (yes, one word) is a Dutch euphemism for establishments where soft drugs are legally sold and used. Enjoy this while you can.
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles
De Wallen is the largest and best known red-light district in Amsterdam and consists of a network of alleys containing approximately three hundred one-room cabins rented by prostitutes who offer their sexual services from behind a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights. These “kamers” are the most visible and typical kind of red light district sex work in Amsterdam and are a large tourist attraction. Amsterdam sex drugs, you can count on it.
De Wallen Amsterdam
I imagine this whole district will just move to another location, Amsterdam can’t afford to lose the millions of tourists that come to see the RLD with Amsterdam sex drugs & rock & roll. 🙂
Amsterdam sex drugs & rock & roll
It really is a wonderful city.
Window shopping at its best
May I remind you when I think of Amsterdam I think of sex drugs & bicycles. 😆
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles
As with other countries, estimates regarding the total number of prostitutes vary. Most sources place this number between 15,000 and 30,000. An article published in 1997 in the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality claimed that the total number of prostitutes in the Netherlands was about 15,000 to 20,000. CATW has stated that there were 30,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands, citing “Sex tax Ticks off Dutch,” Associated Press, 14 October 1997. According to Radio Netherlands, in 1999, there were estimated to be 25,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands, with 12,500 working at any one time at a total of 6,000 locations. A later study by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 estimated that there were a total of between 20,000 and 25,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands
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Watching the boats
This bridge was 30 meters from my B & B and 20 meters from my favorite restaurant, De Belhamel.
De Belhamel
I had dinner twice here and on two other evenings called in to the delightful bar for a nightcap.
Lamb at De Belhamel
The Australian lamb at De Belhamel was magnificent, put this delightful restaurant on your list.
De Belhamel bar
That’s my red wine sitting on the bar, this was my compulsory stop before retiring for the night.
de belhamel is Dutch for “the rascal” – literally translated, but the Dutch translate it as “naughty child”
My friend visits in September 2015
The blonde lady Joyce Weir has been a friend of mine for over 40 years, I told her about this great restaurant, I’m so pleased she took her friends there, naturally they loved it. 🙂
One of the 2500 house boats in Amsterdam
All year long canal tours show people from all over the world how amazing the historical canal houses of Amsterdam look from the water. Some people enjoy this view every day from their own houseboat. Holland counts many houseboats, but Amsterdam holds the record with approximately 2500 houseboats.
Always lots of activity on the canals.
There is never a dull moment in Amsterdam.
Stout Restaurtant
Another good restaurant close to where I was staying.
Nice atmosphere.
TripAdvisor rate it #109 of 3,243 Restaurants in Amsterdam.
A pie at Stout.
With such a high rating it seems a shame to only have a pie, however I only found out about the rating when I was back home. 🙂
Cafe de Prins
I had lunch here twice, good food, cold beer and a great spot for people watching.
Cafe de Prins
The perfect lunch. 😎
The traffic can wait
Another way for the tourists to see Amsterdam.
Science Center NEMO
NEMO proves that there is a fun way to learn more about science and technology. The largest science center in the Netherlands has five floors full of exciting things to do and discover. All your senses will be stimulated by exhibitions, theatre performances, films, workshops and demonstrations.
The replica of the three masted “Amsterdam”
The replica of the three masted “Amsterdam”, a large vessel of the Dutch East India Company, which in its maiden journey to Batavia sank in a storm in the English Channel in winter of 1749, stands high above the waters of Ij Bay, directly at the museum quay. The wreck of the ship has been discovered off the English coast in 1969, and the museum replica has been completed in 1990. Visiting the ship, you may see how small and primitive spaces were to house 350 people during the ship’s journey, with more comfortable but equally minute quarters for the ship’s captain and officers.
A wonderful B & B
Of all the places I stayed on my “seven super cities” adventure, my B & B in Amsterdam was the best accommodation by a long shot. There are only 2 apartments in the building beside the delightful couple Tony & Loes who live there.
The breakfast room
The location was perfect, only 10 minutes walk to Central Station and close to shops & restaurants.
What a fabulous city.
Amsterdam sex drugs & bicycles is one of my favourite posts, I hope you enjoyed it.
The Luxer is a short walk from the station, use THIS LINK for a discount.
