angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 17, 2011, 6:51 pm
This week we packed all our favorite things in a handful of boxes, and a little moving company came to take it all away. That's right folks, we're moving on from Amsterdam.  As a Sydneysider targeted by the cities social incompetence I’d daydream about moving and living around the world, always f...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Nov 23, 2011, 5:44 am
When I moved here almost 3 years ago I felt I slipped into Amsterdam so effortlessly that at times I wondered if I had lived here my entire life. I found the locals easy to understand and easy to deal with, I loved the sense of community that I felt all around me and I loved that women were complete...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Jun 5, 2011, 6:43 am
The delicious Rollende Keukens or Rolling Kitchens was in town again this long weekend for the 4th year in a row. Dozens of mobile kitchens head to the park at Westergasfabriek turning it into a delicious open air restaurant with live music and theatre, and the atmosphere is nothing like what yo...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Apr 13, 2011, 6:00 am
When in Rome, do as the Romans do, you will have to if you want to cross the street. During my 9 day vacation in Rome it was day 3 when I was finally fed up waiting for traffic to stop for me at zebra crossings and so with no Italians in sight to follow I decided that I would be assertive and cool a...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 27, 2011, 6:58 pm
On a regular basis I receive emails from people all around the world hoping or planning to move to Amsterdam, they ask for all sorts of things from how to find a job and an apartment to how to cope with the weather. I try my best to get back to everyone but with my A.D.D a couple sometimes slip thro...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 10, 2011, 3:23 pm
Last year when I was planning my wedding in The Netherlands I noticed a gap in the wedding industry that could help me navigate my way around vendors who were reliable and offered excellent service. My year of wedding planning was filled with many frustrations that many brides will encounter; rude...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 8, 2011, 5:19 am
Some numbers related to my professional life in Amsterdam since moving here almost 2 years ago; ~ 13 - jobs somewhat related to my career that I could apply for ~ 28 - jobs not specific to my career that I would do out of shear desperation for something to do 1 - university course related to my care...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Feb 13, 2011, 6:11 pm
I'd never heard much about Milan but reading about heavy discounts on designer clothes, markets with vintage shoes and cheap flights from Amsterdam it felt natural to do a girls trip there. So last Friday Amanda and I jumped on a plane and headed toward Italy.  Unfortunately heavy discounts meant t...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Jan 10, 2011, 6:30 am
Although I didn't updated much, 2010 was a year of up's and down's. I figured the best way to summarize the year was to do like Amanda and do a 2010 alphabet.  Chilling in AmsterdamA. Amsterdam - I loved this city more and more everyday and at the times when I realized I actually lived in Amster...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 28, 2010, 6:40 am
I'm pretty certain I never want to live in Australia again but in between bouts of insomnia are persistent dreams of familiar beaches, surfing and warmth hitting on my body. The frequency of the dreams is getting a little disturbing now... They started roughly six months ago in October with one drea...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 14, 2010, 12:46 pm
Last week was Restaurant Week in Amsterdam, for €25 you can try a 3 course menu at one of Amsterdam's finer restaurants that you might not usually be able to splurge on. We were a little lazy with organising so we only got to try two restaurants, we will definitely try and reserve in advance next ...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Mar 14, 2010, 12:46 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Feb 3, 2010, 2:15 pm
It's been so long since my last update, between work, being knocked out by the flu right after NYE, insomnia, headaches, wedding planning and bleak Amsterdam weather I haven't found the time or the inspiration to update my blog at all lately. Until I took a little break down Sunny Portugal way. It s...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Feb 3, 2010, 2:15 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 22, 2009, 5:09 pm
It's that time again... Time to head off to beautiful Norway for another white Christmas. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!  I will be back on the 27th with lots and lots of photos to share.
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 22, 2009, 5:09 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 13, 2009, 1:58 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 13, 2009, 1:58 pm
Yesterday morning I compiled a bunch of pictures from the last year to have printed and sent to my mum back in Sydney. After spending almost the entire day at the Albert Cuypmarkt and having no time to print them, Mats suggested I upload them onto an Australian photo printing website and have them s...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 13, 2009, 12:27 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 10, 2009, 3:45 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 10, 2009, 3:45 pm
There is something special about Christmas in Europe, having grown up in Sydney, the days leading up to Christmas' composed mostly of humidity, bikini's and fake snow from a can on windows. But in Europe you really feel Christmas is... Christmas. Hot mugs of glühwein, the smell of cinnamon in the ...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 9, 2009, 1:30 pm
Last Saturday Mats and I jumped into a car with Amanda and Dave and drove to Köln. I was surprised to find that it was not a pretty city at all, being almost completely bombed during WW2 most of the cities architecture is from the 1950's so it lacked a lot of the old charm many other large European...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Dec 9, 2009, 1:30 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Nov 22, 2009, 8:24 am
My attention was caught by an add on Facebook today; the head of an orangoutang in cling wrap ready to be sold in supermarkets. I clicked the link which took me to a page that warned meat sold in Albert Heijn was soy fed, soy which is grown in plantations in South America that are not only damaging...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Nov 22, 2009, 8:24 am
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Nov 11, 2009, 3:40 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Nov 11, 2009, 3:40 pm
Every morning for the past month I have biked through Vondelpark on my way to work and watched as the leaves on the trees slowly turned yellow and orange and fell to the ground. I have only ever experienced a real autumn once before (when I lived in Canada all the way back in 2005) and although I ...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 31, 2009, 2:26 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 31, 2009, 2:26 pm
I hate to admit it, but it happened today, a pang of wanting to be living back by the beach. A pang bad enough to even make me want to be living back in Manly Beach, Sydney. My expressed wish, my "big dream" has always been to live on one of the isles of Hawaii. I feel so far away from all of that r...
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 21, 2009, 12:45 pm
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 18, 2009, 10:23 am
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 7, 2009, 9:42 am
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 5, 2009, 11:01 am
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 4, 2009, 7:50 am
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angela rhodes posted an article on AMSTERDAMNED - Oct 2, 2009, 9:39 am
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