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Seeing Amsterdam Through the Water Ways

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Water is the way to travel or enjoy Amsterdam, because water and Amsterdam are inextricably linked. Amsterdam was founded on water and still plays an important part not only for the city’s commerce, but for tourism as well, with the canals and beaches respectively.

The Canal Bus is an ideal mode of transportation through the canals of Amsterdam, highlighting the best parts of the city. The bus is a comfortable boat that offers three routes with a fixed timetable. All the stops are at major attractions, like museums, shopping and are conveniently located near most major hotels in Amsterdam . While traveling on board, tourists will get to listen to interesting information about the places they are cruising by. The best part about this particular mode of transportation is that anyone can get on and off at anytime, and as often as they want; the Canal Bus ticket is good for 24 hours, is valid on all 3 lines, and is easily purchased at any Canal Company kiosk , at the Rijks museum, the Leidseplein, the Wester Church and many hotels. The ticket costs 20 Euros, but that price also gives the purchaser more than 133 Euros worth of discounts on a majority of tourist attractions and restaurants. Children under 4 may get on for free and children 5 to 12 only have to pay 10 Euros per ticket.

Also, in Amsterdam, while traveling up and down the canals, the Velsen-IJmuiden beach is located along the North Sea canal, which flows into the sea through huge sluices. The beach area affords a peaceful landscape of dunes and wide sandy areas for the locals and tourist a like who want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city of Amsterdam. Velsen beach, no matter what time of the year, besides relaxing in the sun, offers something for everyone, like outdoor music concerts to trampoline parks to educational farms.

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New York’s First Urban Race

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If you’re planning to visit New York in September, you’re in luck, because on September 25th, New York City will be hosting the first NYC Urban Race. This race is 8 miles long and there will be 3 engaging obstacles. If you’re thinking about participating, you’ll race across, under and over the amazing cityscape of New York City. The Urban Race guarantees to please all adrenaline seekers, experienced athletes of all disciplines, like novice racers to triathletes to weekend warrior racers.

All that’s necessary is that you’re able to run eight miles. that you can can walk, climb, jump and crawl. Not bad requirements for what will be if not fun, the most interesting races in New York City. If you think you’d like to participate, check out this site and sign up. There are several hotles in New York that are nearby the starting point, which starts at 8am and runs along the West Side bike path of Riverside Park that is near 105th Street and goes all the way to downtown Manhattan. The challenging obstacles featured in the NYC Urban Race will require not only strength and endurance, but strategy as well; this race is where smarts can beat speed. You also might like to consider racing with your family, friends or co-workers, because teams of two or more are more than welcome to enter, and due to the Urban Race’s obstacles, might not be a bad strategy. There will be special area’s throughout the NYC Urban Race course where spectators will be positioned to cheer you on and there will also be a post Urban Race festival where you can meet all the other participants.

There’s a limited-time exclusive pricing: from now through June 30, if you register now, you will save $15 on individual entries by only paying $100 or $25 on team (2 people team pricing) entry by only paying $150.00. After June 30th, individual entry price will be $115.00 and Teams will be $175.

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Berlin in New York

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New York City is considered by many people to be the best city in the world. Most of the people who think this are from New York City, but it’s still an idea worth chewing over. It is one of the major intersections for culture in the world, and a place where all cities find some kind of familiarity. Nearly everyone here is from somewhere else, and there are a vast number of languages spoken, and the languages are sometimes a bridge back to a different city at a different time. Memory is found in the speech patterns, and in this respect, New York is never very far from Dublin, Rome, or Berlin.

Berliners may not find themselves perfectly at home here, but they never find themselves at home anywhere. The peculiar feeling of not being at home is peculiar to that city. It also has perfect resonances here, and for this, the new exhibition, Mooring finds a fantastic temporary home.

Terrell James is showing her new works at Jason McCoy, and it’s a wonderful way to get to see what the Houston-based painter is up to. The abstracts are magnificent windows into her version of Berlin, which necessarily becomes her new version of herself. Artists typically have a hard time finding a home in the world, and their paintings often contemplate that as much as anything. Great artists allow us to see these same things in ourselves, and that’s exactly what James’ work is up to.

For the visitor in the city, the temporary convenience that’s so valuable here in the city can be found in a perfectly lovely hotel . Convenience in thought is rarely found in a gallery, where there is more of an escape into something that’s ironically close to home. That’s one of the things that makes her show so striking, where the idea of Berlin, in all of its beauty, and all of its destruction, and all of its terrible history, overlap constantly, and the effect is impossible to put into words, but can be found in the brilliant minds of some of the artists who find themselves lost there.

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