Nightclubs and bars in Netherlands

When you go to a pub, you will often find little baskets with nuts or peanuts on the bar. You can take all you want.
Sometimes there are peanuts in the shell too. You're supposed to peel them and drop the shells to the floor. T'hey'll be cleaned up when the pub closes.
So don't be surprised or worried when you enter a pub and you see the floor strewn with peanut shells!

Dress Code: No dress code. The Hoofdwacht hosts a lot of outdoor live concerts on the little square in front of it. F

Along one of the canals is the infamous red light district of Amsterdam.

Many things are legal in Netherland including prostitution. There are adult book stores, adult shows as well as hookers displaying themselves in windows beckoning on-lookers.

Recommend going in a group and just window shop only.

Every year on the last Sunday of July, Brielle hosts its very own blues festival: Brielle Blues.

From 3-10 a.m. there is live music on 3 open air stages and after 10 a pub crawl along Brielle's many pubs, all having live bands.

The festival is free.

This Sunday is definitely ALWAYS a day that I am at home in Brielle to enjoy this festival. Preferably with lots of friends coming over so that we can all enjoy the blues.

Dress Code: Come as you are. Or buy one of the black tshirts that are issued yearly with the programma of that year.

Parkpop is the biggest Music festival in The Netherlands. Over 350.000 people come to enjoy the music every year on the last sunday in august. There are several artists from all over the world performing on 3 stages. There are always a couple of headliners, and the rest are beginning or local bands. Over the years I have seen Suzanne Vega, Fun Lovin' Criminals and The Dandy Warhols. Other artists who have performed here are: Robbie Williams, Blondie, De La Soul and many more.

Pinkpop is the longest running festival in the world. It first started in the 70's and it didn't skip one single year. Over 3 days time you will hear a great variety of band perform on 3 stages. The festival is held at Whitsun Weekend every year. A ticket for only the monday costs about € 62,90, a 3-day ticket costs some € 98,90 -. Some of the great artists I have seen at Pinkpop are: Lenny Kravitz, Muse, Faithless, Smashing Pumpkins, Moloko, Skin, Solomon Burke, Macy Gray, Moby and The Verve

Festival Mundial is a yearly event that features all kinds of music, but especially world music. At the end of the festival there is always a 2 day music fest with a lot of performances. Last year I saw some great bands like Noa and Orchestra Baobab. There's also a multicultural market, and the necessary 3rd world awareness. And of course the food is excellent. The festival always takes place in the 2nd or 3rd weekend in June.

If you are bored with the same old hangover on New Years Day, or the same old partying OR just sitting in and missing everything then GO TO HOLLAND its sheer madness and everyone should see it once!

At midnight on New Years Eve Health & Safety is thrown to the window as the residents on every street come out and light fireworks in the front garden or the path outside their house. They light braziers, candles or anything that will burn and set off the most powerful of fireworks - the like of which in England we would only see in a formal organised 'pay to see' event.

You really need to be there as words cannot give you the full effect, with bangs and wizzing going off from every direction its deafening and I would image just like being at the battle front. Although no one is aiming for you there are random wayward fireworks that shoot down the pavement and through the parked cars!

Give it a try! I now go every year!

Dress Code: Something warm plus a camera and tripod!

Yeah baby, sex museum, and Amsterdam is a paradise for hornies, LOL
also a paradise for homosexuals, Lesbiens, and Narckomen, and also for special persons who likes Sado-mazochism!
You will have a good idea by entering the sex museum, but be careful, some photos are really disguasting, and not all the sex imaginations are good!