All news on the topic: Amsterdam

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Investigators can’t determine the gender of the person sucked into the KLM jet engine at Amsterdam airport
Several Dutch outlets have said the victim may have been an airport worker involved in a takeoff manoeuvre
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Students across Europe hold Gaza war protests in run-up to UN vote on Palestinian statehood
Police arrested dozens of people in Amsterdam, with university occupations continuing in Netherlands, Belgium and Spain
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Top 10 travel experiences Brits are most keen to share - with their mums
From tasting the sweet treats of Paris, to chilling out in Marrakech, it emerged that seven in 10 adults would be happy to take a joint holiday with their mothers
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British expats told to 'f*** off back where you came from' after church bell row
Not for the first time, expats in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam are up in arms over the bells of the Westerkerk, drawing the fury of locals - one of whom told them to go back to England
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'Work pays me for extra days off because I'm willing to change travel plans'
Sally Brake's company has signed up to Climate Perks, a scheme which encourages firms to incentivise their employees to travel in green ways by giving them extra time off
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Amsterdam set to have Europe's highest tourism tax as it brings in new rules
Amsterdam in the Netherlands is significantly increasing its tourist tax from 2024 in a move that could cost visitors to the Dutch capital hundreds of pounds more
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Brit who took £28 bus from UK to Amsterdam says it was 'like a private taxi'
Tom Burnett decided to try out the Cambridge to Amsterdam bus route which takes 12 hours and costs less than £30, dropping customers off early in the morning in the Dutch capital
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Couple's easyJet nightmare as they end up 377 miles away from home on way back
Chris and Trisha Daines faced travel chaos when returning to Essex after a weekend in Amsterdam - and were forced to fork out more than £150 as they desperately tried to get home
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EasyJet passenger 'too drunk to put his seatbelt on' wakes up in police cell
Stephen Bartle, 36, from Cornwall, woke up in a police cell in Bristol thinking he had been on holiday to Amsterdam -he pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft
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Footballer dies after falling into canal while on holiday as police investigate
Gabriele Gallani, who captained ASD Piccardo Traversetolo, was rescued by firefights on Friday night but was pronounced dead in hospital several hours later
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Stag and hen party bookings surge as bid to stop boozy bashes backfires
It is said bookings are up 50 per cent for York, Edinburgh and Amsterdam with a 4306% surge in bookings to the Netherlands’ capital
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Stag-do bookings to Amsterdam triple after city warned Brits to 'stay away'
Amsterdam City Council's new campaign - dubbed 'Stay Away' - will target people who search for terms including 'stag party Amsterdam' or 'pub crawl Amsterdam', although it seems to have increased interest inadvertently
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Amsterdam warns Brits to ‘stay away’ in bid to cut down on sex and booze tourism
Amsterdam's new campaign to clean up its streets - dubbed 'Stay Away' - will target Brits who search for terms including 'stag party Amsterdam' or 'pub crawl Amsterdam'
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Amsterdam bans cannabis in Red Light District and tightens brothel rules
Amsterdam city council is introducing stricter laws on cannabis smoking in the Dutch city from May, with bar, sex show and brothel opening hours also impacted by the news rules