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Old 09-06-2015, 09:29 AM   #1
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Thumbs up Amsterdam 2015

Ciao to all my friends. After the serious incident of 2014 i restarted to travel and i decided to return to one of the most beautiful cities of the world, Amsterdam (The Netherlands). This was my 3rd time in this wonderful city, a kind of Venice with a different style and this time i was with my mother, my wife and other two people.
In this thread there will be many things: food, the wonderful Amsterdam-style houses, canals, windmills, airplanes, KLM report, spotting (because i was so lucky that the airplanes landing at Schiphol were passing over the city!) and the meeting with two great friends of Wings900, Dragan (AMS2006) and Thom (DutchCollector).
I flew with KLM, a great airline, great service, great flight. Sad to come back to my country, Italy, and to my city, Rome.
I am preparing the photos, i hope you will enjoy the thread.
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Re: Amsterdam 2015

Hi Ale, I am so curious to see the pictures of your trip. Thanks again for a great dinner with your family and Thom.
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We had a great time for sure, thank you Alessandro for the dinner. I look forward to your reports!
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Can't wait to see the photos!
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First of all, Amsterdam is really one of the most beautiful cities of the world. It seats on the water, so many canals that make it a Venice with a different architecture. The people are friendly and polite, i never had problems; the real problem are the too many bicycles and the people that think to have right of way than the other, even the pedestrians. Very often i shouted against running cyclist without consider that a tourist or an old man or woman are crossing the streets, even under the rain. Sometimes this is really dangerous!
But this doesn't want to be a criticism, just an observation about an habit of a population who can use the bicycles for everything and to go anywhere, a way of locomotion green, healthy and cheap.
Anyway in Italy we have many bad habits, and one is the worst: Dragan knew about this when he met me in Italy and we have been to one of the most beautiful lakes around Rome with my car, Thom knew about this when he went in Rome few months ago...when you come to Italy and there is a traffic light in front of you consider that
- when the traffic light is green Italian drivers pass fast without caring of the others
- when the traffic light is yellow Italian drivers pass decelerating (but this is the most dangerous situation for the pedestrians and the other drivers because many accelerate to pass before the light turns red!)
- when the traffic light is red Italian drivers pass slowly.
Italian drivers, especially in the central Italy and about always in the south, don't stop before the pedestrian crossing.

The other thing that amazed me is that in Amsterdam there are thousand of tourists from China, the city is full of Chinese and Thom told me that while my KLM B737-800WL was landing a China Southern A380 was landing as well. I think that the power of a country is shown also by the people traveling for pleasure, and it was the same when Spain was living a great period, the year 2007, when i traveled all over the world just in a year and each place was full of tourists from Spain.

I am preparing the photos and i will post them soon.
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Re: Amsterdam 2015

6.20 am, Rome FCO airport, KLM B737-800WL to Amsterdam ready for push back


The airplane just started the taxiing and someone (an Italian, of course!) has already lowered the seat
















During the flight




The flight was really wonderful, the cabin crew was competent and friendly, many drinks and aa nice snack, but when i turned down the table...

...vomit? drink? food? Now dry, but maybe the airline would take more care to cleaning!

Beautiful KLM logo


Near to land at AMS airport










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Re: Amsterdam 2015

wonderful pictures Alessandro...I'm sure you had a great time with our friend Thom...you've done loads of spotting and shopping (airplanes, ofcourse!)...Good to see a BA B767, my friend Oh yes, I really enjoyed the pics, my friend!!! Any more trips coming up, Ale? Maybe to...ahem!!!
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wonderful pictures Alessandro...I'm sure you had a great time with our friend Thom...you've done loads of spotting and shopping (airplanes, ofcourse!)...Good to see a BA B767, my friend Oh yes, I really enjoyed the pics, my friend!!! Any more trips coming up, Ale? Maybe to...ahem!!!
London, my friend? For sure Heathrow is a paradise for spotters and for sure i have to go again to spot landing airplanes because the last time i tried the weather was absolutely awful!
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great pics with the beautiful Dutch weather, which is the same as in Belgium ... summer do they call it
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Thanks Pieter.
Please don't complain with your climate, the summer here in Rome is 39°C with 85% of humidity...tropical weather!
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I know, but I have a vineyard for making wine, and with this weather, my grapes don't mature enough...
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Hi Alessandro,
nice pics. You could put your pics from the Aviation megastore in a separate thread in the Shop Visits - Wings900 Discussion Forums section
Looks quite big, have never been there yet.
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