National Windmill Day 2024 is on Friday, May 10, 2024: two days travel in Amsterdam?

Friday, May 10, 2024 is National Windmill Day 2024. National Mill Day - Holland. National Mill Day

Getting Around Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a wonderfully walkable city with most major sites located in or near the city center. Public transportation is excellent and driving is strongly discouraged within the canal ring. Of course biking is the preferred Dutch way to travel and some would say the only way to truly experience the city.

Public Transportation - GVB (www.gvb.nl) is the public transport company of Amsterdam providing integrated metro, tram and bus service throughout Amsterdam and its surrounding areas. In 2010 one comprehensive OV-chipcard ticketing system has been introduced allowing you to travel on trams, metro, busses and even trains using one card OV-chipcard. There is a whole complexity of these cards, which carry the credit you purchased earlier on special machines located on stations and at the entry of many supermarkets.

There are 24-, 48-, 72-, 96-, 120-, 144- and 168- hour OV-chipcards, which allow for unlimited travel on all trams, buses, metros and night buses for the duration of the card and provide economical way for visitors to explore the city.

A one hour OV card can be purchased onboard from GVB drivers and conductors, however this is not recommended due the premium charged for this ticket: it costs € 2,60 for one hour unlimited travel on different busses and trains in the city, counted since the begin of your first journey. This card is not valid on another day or longer than one hour, even if your actual first journey has been very short.

Trams provide the best way to get around Amsterdam (map) and run regularly until 12:15am.

City buses lets you travel after tram timings, and metro is very fast but it does not reach the suburbs !

Top 10 Places to see in and near Amsterdam:-

The Netherlands is synonymous for its windmills, clogs, tulips, canals, cheese markets… practically everything that you would expect to find in a charming and utterly picturesque country. But, whatever image you associate with the lowlands, the first thing likely to come to mind is the windmill (molen). Such is the importance of these living monuments that there is even a National Windmill Day (11 May), and on festive occasions or national holidays molens are decked out in flowers, garlands, figures of angels or the Dutch flag. For centuries, windmills have helped the Dutch fight water shortages so it is little wonder that they were the first to develop ‘windmill technology.’ In the glory days, the Netherlands boasted more than 10,000 mills but the molen population today stands at a mere 1,000. Many of the remaining mills are open to the public and a couple have even been transformed into homes, but a word of warning, these are not museums!

Located on the outskirts of the city, the Molen van Sloten mill is situated on Akersluis 10. It is a 19th century polder draining mill accessible to the public daily between 10am and 4pm, with the exception of public holidays. Disabled and eldery people as well as children and pregnant mothers are also able to enjoy a guided tour through the mill and visit the gallery thanks to an in-built lift. You can trace the history of the mill or the life of Rembrandt and why not make a day of it – visit the neighbouring village of Sloten. What makes this mill truly extra special is that it has been officially declared a ‘house of the municipality’, which means that you can actually get married here.

Last but not least is De Otter mill. Built circa 1630, De Otter stands proud as the "heritage of Amsterdam, the instrument with which the Netherlands ruled the waves." The mill is approximately 20 minutes away from Dam Square by foot on Gillis van Ledenberchstraat 78, west of the Jordaan district. De Otter is a post-mill (paltrok) and not only is it the only wood-sawing mill of its kind still in operation but it is also the oldest. Unfortunately it is being threatened by developers who plan on knocking down history to build a block of luxury apartments or offices. Already, De Otter is having trouble operating as a proper mill because neighbouring houses are obstructing the passage of wind and although the owner is fighting tooth and nail to keep the mill, the future looks bleak. So if you really want to see a traditional molen, make sure you visit De Otter before it’s too late. Just one look at this beautiful mill and you will be blown away

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Remember you heard it from G first !

Can national state and local governments use incentives for purchasing electrical micro-generation technology?

Typical lib! Where do you think the government gets the MONEY for picking up the tab? Why would you put a moratorium on building more nukes? We could cut greenhouese gases by 81%. To produce enough solar power you would have to cover Mass, TWICE, and that would only work during sunny days. What about those 2 week snow storms. Wind power? You would need to put up a windmill every 35' of the US coastline just to meet current capacity and of course the wind would always have to blow.

Get the facts, get realistic. We can dratically cut emissions, we can do it and stregthen our economy. BTW, a solar unit will cost 3X what a comparable nuclear unit costs and only takes up about 1/100 of the space.

Pokemon Platinum: Good Locations (pre-national dex), Trainers (LV lower the better), for Spec. Def. EV'ing?

Near the Windmill area/ Floaroma Town, in the water you can battle Tentacool and Tentacruel for special defense EVs. For trainers, try battling the Pokemon Breeder Jennifer in route 209, the Mime Jr. and Eevee. On specific days, in Hearthome City, there is a clown you can battle in the Pokemon Center.