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Stayokay Maastricht is a hostel located in the centre of Maastricht (a city situated in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands between Belgium and Germany) on the western banks of the Maas. The hostel has 38 rooms.Three are multifunctional halls, a waterside terrace and mooring facilities for boats.

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A park like landscape containing colourful designs by the French designer Matali Crasset in Amsterdam. As part of the Erasmus Festival.

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This restaurant is called Praq and it is designed by the dutch designer Tjep. The place is perfect for grown-ups and also a lot of fun for children. This splendid restaurant is located at Amersfoort in the Netherlands and has tables that look like a bus, a window and a kitchen.

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The Lloyd Hotel has a perfect location: it is located in the heart of Amsterdam with direct public transport connections and access to every part of the city. The hotel also has its own spacious parking garage. There’s also a lot of space in front of the hotel if you’re interested in getting there by boat.

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The hotel is sitted on the Prins Hendrikkade in the city centre at only 500 m from Central Station and 1100 m from Dam Square.The place is in the historic heart of Amsterdam bordering on canals and within walking distance to the best sights. The Schiphol Airport is just 19 km away.

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Hydra Pier Water Pavilion is a structure built as a pavilion for Haarlemmermeer’s Floriade exhibition in 2002 – a massive, once-a-decade Dutch horticultural fair in Amsterdam. The building actually floating onto a lake and it’s in this reclaimed area below sea level. One interesting feature, which really amused visitors is the water continuously flowing over the roof and walls of the building, beneath which the structural-glass construction dematerializes.

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Utrecht University is located in Netherlands and has developed one of the most prominent institutes of research and education. The university is a largeard and multi-faceted knowledge centre.

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Lute Suites is located just on the coast of the river Amstel in Ouderkerk ann de Amstel, and it is 15 minutes by car from Schiphol Airport and 20 minutes by car from Amsterdam City center.

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Every city should have a great piece of symbolic architecture – In Paris it’s the Eiffel Tower; in New York – the Empire State Building; in Rotterdam it’s the Erasmus bridge. The Erasmus Bridge is a cable stayed bridge across the Nieuwe Maas river. The Bridge was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The 808 metre long bridge has a 139 metre-high asymmetrical pylon, earning the bridge its nickname of “The Swan” by locals because of its graceful posture over the water. The southern span of the bridge has a 89 metre long bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in West Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world. The bridge was officially opened by Queen Beatrix on 6.09. 1996, having cost about 75 million Euros to construct. Shortly after the bridge opened to traffic in October 1996, it was discovered the bridge would swing under particularly strong wind conditions. To reduce the trembling, stronger shock dampeners were installed.

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As we learned from a post on MobileTopSoft, all the folks in Netherlands will have an opportunity to plan their daily journeys easier, if they are customers of Vodafone and use TomTom navigation services.

TomTom and Vodafone Netherlands are planning to jointly develop and introduce a technology that according to them will revolutionise the way people plan their daily journeys. The solution is planned to be available from the second half of 2007.

This development will see TomTom’s technology convert anonymous, raw GSM signaling data supplied by Vodafone Netherlands’ network into accurate, real-time, information on the speed and direction of cars traveling throughout the road network of the Netherlands. The technology has been tested and proven on a regional scale and this will be the world’s first nationwide, commercial deployment.

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