{"id":497690,"date":"2020-01-13T08:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/?p=497690"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:32:11","slug":"amsterdam-noord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/2020\/amsterdam-noord\/497690\/","title":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM NOORD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amsterdam North as seen by Oriane<\/h2>\n

The ferry is waiting for you<\/h3>\n
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Ferries from Amsterdam Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Surprise! The ferries to the other side of the IJ from Central Station are free. I thought it was folkloric to cross on foot with a bunch of bikes! Some are typical: wooden mudguards, no brakes, boxes on the front wheel\u2026. They are often personalized (color, original box at the front, a colored or specially designed bell, or a slightly cheesy decoration such as plastic flowers\u2026)<\/p>\n
Heading for the Eye Institute<\/h3>\n
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Eye Film Institute Netherlands – Ferries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Here we are in front of the Eye Film Institute Netherlands, a film museum inaugurated in 2012\u2026 A building with a tapered roof in the shape of a space shuttle, standing on an esplanade on the edge of the quay, from where the A\u2019Dam Tower rises. This square skyscraper from 1965-1970 has been remodeled, transformed, and topped by a panoramic revolving restaurant: the Moon. It is located on its rooftop terrace, the A\u2019Dam Lookout at a height of over 100m, where, in August 2016, Europe\u2019s highest swings were inaugurated. Worth seeing, and testing! Why not? But, during our first afternoon in Amsterdam, we decided to postpone this experience for our next visit\u2026 That\u2019s the official reason\u2026 The actual reason is that Angel is a little afraid of heights\u2026 especially in windy weather\u2026 Shhhh\u2026 That\u2019s just between us\u2026 He\u2019s busy taking lots of pictures. I\u2019m gonna join him, and by the way, pose in front of\u2026. The I AMSTERDAM!<\/p>\n
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Moon, the revolving restaurant with a spectacular 360\u02da panorama of Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I love Amsterdam – The compulsory tourist photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Welcome to the North district of Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
What is NDSM?<\/h3>\n
We then chose the option to walk to the NDSM hippie neighborhood. Long live geolocation on our phones that help us cross tertiary activity zones, and provide you with Oriane and Angel\u2019s interactive map! This unusual place is about a 45 minutes walk away\u2026 Next time, we\u2019ll take a bike from the Eye, or we\u2019ll take a direct ferry from the central station (the NDSM Weif, which is free)\u2026.<\/p>\n
When we arrived, we came across a courtyard that looks like a wasteland, which houses 2 large antique sales sheds. To tell the truth, Angel\u2019s gaze was attracted by a small sign on the ground which directed us to a bar, the Waargenoegen.
\nAs I entered the courtyard, I thought I was in Emmaus, but as soon as I entered Neef Louis Design, I was blown away! I saw all sorts of objects from the last century, recovered from various industries, laboratories, shops; from grocery scales to industrial furniture and cloakrooms, not to mention vintage telephones and lamps\u2026
\nImpossible to describe! Check it out! Across from it you\u2019ll see the Van Dijik en Ko: a slightly more classic antique surface with many treasures. I would have loved to redecorate my flat there! But Angel refused to carry the white wood and steel china cabinet I had chosen, as well as the straightener\u2026<\/p>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Containers NDSM – Amsterdam Nord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On the way out, we discovered a super \u201cpeace and love\u201d area! Dwellings and bars in containers. A large glass roof (former aircraft hangar) surrounded by a field with an open stage, housing a bar\/restaurant called the Noorderlicht caf\u00e9. Angel of course tasted Jenever – Jone Jenever – (3 euros), but you can also taste the old one – Oude Jenever – (also 3 euros).<\/p>\n
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Caf\u00e9 Noorderlicht – Amsterdam Nord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I tried a good organic raspberry soda – Biologische Frisdiarken Van Naturfrisk Framboos – (3 euros).<\/p>\n
We had a great view of the sunset from the caf\u00e9. A moment of delight, dreamy, convivial, cosy\u2026 All this, without worrying about the time, a moment suspended in time\u2026 A pleasure to live in the here and now\u2026 The Amsterdamers call this the gezelligheid. (I\u2019d rather write it than try to say it!)<\/p>\n
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Faralda Crane Hotel 5* – Amsterdam Nord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Get the picture? No, not quite\u2026 in the background, a truck decorated with LGBT colors tagged with the word LOVE, and further on you can see the Faralda Crane Hotel\u2019s famous harbor crane. The hotel houses 3 rooms! You can also go bungee jumping for 85 euros\u2026 We didn\u2019t have the time to test it! (You believe me, right?)<\/p>\n
Well, let\u2019s get back to our tagged containers and other gay and apocalyptic decorations\u2026 This Thursday afternoon, there isn\u2019t a flea market (it takes place every month on the weekends), but the warehouses that host it are filled with old containers – lined up to form streets – serving as a workshop for creative artists. Design and humor characterize this place\u2026 A selfie point will allow you to take the most original souvenir photo of Amsterdam\u2026 (don\u2019t forget to pin your photo on a map, in case you don\u2019t recognize the place afterwards!)<\/p>\n
Amsterdam North as seen by Angel<\/h2>\n
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Bike parking near Amsterdam train station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Amsterdam\u2019s trams are very convenient: in a few minutes you can cross the city centre. Here, all roads don\u2019t lead to Rome, they lead to the Centraal Station. Around the Centraal Station, there are thousands of bikes parked, a forest of multicolored wheels and handlebars. A tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists crosses the station, Oriane almost got run over when she took the bike path \u2014 a rookie mistake, don\u2019t be naive like her! The HeET IJ leads to the HeET IJ from where the ferries leave for Buiksloterweg and the famous, very desisgn-oriented Eye Film Institute building.<\/p>\n
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Amsterdam Cinema Museum EYE Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I love this building, it\u2019s very slender, like a Star Wars vessel or a Vend\u00e9e Globe trimaran.<\/p>\n
Bikes, scooters, and even Piaggio scooters compete with pedestrians on the ferry. Behind the Eye runs the canal, which you can sail along to discover the Dutch countryside and the mills.<\/p>\n
Okay, so Oriane admired the new swings at the top of the A\u2019Dam tower, a former Shell tower, but she had no desire to try them, she said, and the same went for the revolving restaurant!<\/p>\n
I think that discovering North Amsterdam by foot may hold some surprises for us, as it is a very original district where industrial wastelands have been converted into artistic and hippie zones, or into very trendy places, or even in some areas into luxury residences.
\nAmsterdam Noord Vintage<\/p>\n
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Post industrial and artistic zone of North Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Luckily, Mister Angel was there, and spotted a handmade sign that was barely noticeable at all\u2026 I think it might be hiding something. Indeed, as we entered the courtyard full of heterogeneous objects, we discovered two stores of gigantic objects accessible behind two small doors which face each other at the other end of the courtyard: Van Dije en Ko and Neef Louis Design. Hang on, and welcome to Ali Baba\u2019s largest cave of vintage and industrial objects. So, when Angel gets curious, you\u2019ll find incredible things! Sure, it\u2019s a change from shopping in downtown Amsterdam. I didn\u2019t even take a picture of 0.1% of what\u2019s there! Oriane wanted to redecorate and have me carry everything, but I\u2019m not wearing a DHL jacket! Come on!<\/p>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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North District Neef Louis Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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North District Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caf\u00e9 Noorderlicht d’Amsterdam Noord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Then, we discovered Amsterdam\u2019s specialty: Jenever. But no alcohol for Oriane! She had a natural raspberry juice.<\/p>\n
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Unusual offices in Amsterdam Noord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
They serve it in glasses filled to the brim. The tradition would have been for me to drink it with my hands behind my back directly from the counter or the table. To fulfill my role as the perfect tourist, I took a sip. 38 proof, very nice.<\/p>\n
Further on I saw a shed from which we could hear flashes of welding crackle. intrigued, and feeling like it was my lucky day for finding unusual places, I rushed there with Oriane. To enter the hanger, we followed it to a factory door. Pushing it open, we discovered a gigantic disused factory, 80% empty.<\/p>\n
Inside, on the right, there was an avenue of containers, and, improbably, the containers are inhabited by post-industrial artists. They create conceptual objects that they sell on the spot or to galleries or connoisseur clients.<\/p>\n
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North District NDSM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Amsterdam post-industrial artists’ district<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
We left a little dumbfounded and further on we discovered the famous Pilek, a very trendy bar-restaurant that is accessed through containers closed off by curtains or heat transparent plastic strips.<\/p>\n
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The legendary caf\u00e9-restaurant Pilek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The restaurant\u2019s clients were not at all hippies, but rather tourists and well-dressed Amsterdamers. As Oriane was not wearing any make-up and wasn\u2019t carrying her fashionable handbag, we went on to the ferry landing stage. On the pontoon, a motley crowd of workers were returning home on their bikes after work, Amsterdamers were shopping, and tourists were discovering. The wind swept the pontoon and accentuated November\u2019s cold temperatures. A selfless guitarist warmed up as we waited\u2026<\/p>\n
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Sunset in the North district of Amsterdam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oriane and Angel help you discover Amsterdam Noord with a superb report full of photos and advice on this northern district. Info about the ferry, NDSM. Amsterdam-Noord won our heart because it\u2019s stress-free if we compare it to the main city. You can explore NDSM Werf on a bicycle, cycle around Nieuwendammerdijk, go on Top of A\u2019dam Tower and Try the Extreme Swing, chill at De Ceuvel Caf\u00e9 and eat a Vegan Meal, shop at the IJhallen (only open in summers and once a month), spend your evening in Pllek by the IJ, go look at the Crane Hotel, or look at alternative housing \u2013 recycled containers and tram, go check out windmill d\u2019Admiraal, end your day in clinkNoord \u2013 ZincBar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Amsterdam Noord Visit Ndsm by Ferry: All of our Photos","_seopress_titles_desc":"We help you discover Amsterdam Noord with a superb report full of photos and advice on this northern district. Info about the ferry, NDSM.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[73,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-497690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam-noord-en","8":"tag-footer2-en","9":"tag-trendy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.style\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}