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  citroenjenever

  lemon gin

  droog

  dry

  frisdranken

  soft drinks

  jenever

  Dutch gin

  karnemelk

  buttermilk

  koffie

  coffee

  koffie verkeerd

  coffee with warm milk

  kopstoot

  beer with a jenever chaser

  melk

  milk

  met ijs

  with ice

  met slagroom

  with whipped cream

  pils

  Dutch beer

  proost!

  cheers!

  sinaasappelsap

  orange juice

  thee

  tea

  tomatensap

  tomato juice

  vruchtensap

  fruit juice

  wijn

  wine

  (wit/rood/rosé)

  (white/red/rosé)

  vieux

  Dutch brandy

  zoet

  sweet

  Small print

  A Rough Guide to Rough Guides

  Rough Guide Credits

  Help us update

  The authors

  Acknowledgements

  A Rough Guide to Rough Guides

  Amsterdam DIRECTIONS is published by Rough Guides. The first Rough Guide to Greece, published in 1982, was a student scheme that became a publishing phenomenon. The immediate success of the book – with numerous reprints and a Thomas Cook prize shortlisting – spawned a series that rapidly covered dozens of destinations. Rough Guides had a ready market among low-budget backpackers, but soon also acquired a much broader and older readership that relished Rough Guides’ wit and inquisitiveness as much as their enthusiastic, critical approach. Everyone wants value for money, but not at any price. Rough Guides soon began supplementing the "rougher" information about hostels and low-budget listings with the kind of detail on restaurants and quality hotels that independent-minded visitors on any budget might expect, whether on business in New York or trekking in Thailand. These days the guides offer recommendations from shoestring to luxury and they cover a large number of destinations around the globe, including almost every country in the Americas and Europe, more than half of Africa and most of Asia and Australasia. Rough Guides now publish:

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  Rough Guide credits

  Text editor: Helena Smith

  Layout: Dan May

  Photography: Neil Setchfield

  Cartography: Miles Irving

  Picture editor: Jj Luck

  Proofreader: Jan Wiltshire

  Production: Julia Bovis

  Design: Henry Iles

  Cover art direction: Louise Boulton

  Help us update

  We’ve gone to a lot of effort to ensure that the first edition of Amsterdam DIRECTIONS is accurate and up-to-date. However, things change – places get "discovered", opening hours are notoriously fickle, restaurants and rooms raise prices or lower standards. If you feel we’ve got it wrong or left something out, we’d like to know, and if you can remember the address, the price, the phone number, so much the better.

  We’ll credit all contributions, and send a copy of the next edition (or any other DIRECTIONS guide or Rough Guide if you prefer) for the best letters. Everyone who writes to us and isn't already a subscriber will receive a copy of our full-colour thrice-yearly newsletter. Please mark letters: " Amsterdam DIRECTIONS Update" and send to: Rough Guides, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, or Rough Guides, 4th Floor, 345 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014. Or send an email to [email protected]

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  The authors

  Martin Dunford is one of the founders of the Rough Guide series and nowadays works as its Publishing Director, responsible for all Rough Guides travel publishing. In addition to Amsterdam, he has authored Rough Guides to The Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg, Brussels, Rome, Italy and New York.

  Phil Lee has freelanced for Rough Guides for well over ten years. The other titles he has written for Rough Guides include Mallorca and Menorca, England, Norway, the Netherlands and Canada. He lives in Nottingham, where he was born and raised.

  Acknowledgements

  The authors would like to thank Karoline Densley for her tireless efforts to get everything right and Malijn Maat for her help and advice.