ramon 0 #1 April 13, 2002 Very nice well organized,man. Very unlike Frankfurt (it was like the inside of a swiis watch).I should stay here instead of going to abu Dhabi (they have an internet bar)bloo skies everyoneramon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spinmaster 0 #2 April 13, 2002 Last time I went threw Skipol (sp?) it took them 2 hours to get my luggage to me. Not very cool after a 9 hour international flight.Last time I went threw Frankfurt my luggage made a 20min transfer from an Internaitonal flight to a domestic flight.....very cool.just my 2cents.Dan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Milo 0 #3 April 13, 2002 I had a 10 hour layover in Amsterdam in November. Enough time to see a little of the town?? The 11 pm train didn't show up until 1 am. Amsterdam isn't a pretty town at 1:00 am when you can't even buy a pack of (socially unacceptable) cigarettes and the only people on the street are other addicts craving a fix from more socially acceptable drugs.The airport itself was fine, they even have a machine hidden in a corner that (gasp!) sells cigarettes.Milo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mountainman 0 #4 April 13, 2002 I had less than one hour in the Amsterdam airport in 1998 to make it to my connection from Helsinki to Newark.I'm sure you know how big the thing is, right? Needless to say, I was booking it through the airport and just barely made it in time.Damn, huge, airports...JumpinDuo.com...come and sign the guestbook. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airann 1 #5 April 13, 2002 Glad you made it that far. We havent started talking about you yet. Come home soon, and be safe.Ann ~ www.AirAnn.comNew sponsors for 2002!(temp page for now) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #6 April 14, 2002 when i went to pick up skreamer, benw, and huffermoose for the 1st. anual dz.com euro boogie i had some time to burn while i waited...sat around and watched the people...saw some guys light up a joint next to me and just hung out..... and then i met benw....... then we waited for skreamer because he missed his flight the first time..... i liked the airport..thought it wa nice that it had direct acess to the publick transportation system.... and i've never had a problem with frankurt IAP...course i flew out of there regularly and know it pretty well....and give frankfurt some slack it is the bigest airport in all of europe.........."i may not go to heven, i hope you go to hell"-C.C. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #7 April 14, 2002 another nice thing about Schipol... hard core porn DVDs at the news agent.. allegedly.... RemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #8 April 14, 2002 Schiphol is da bomb, isn't there a skydive operation there as well???Porter?Either way, you can get a train into town every 15 mins or so, and teh railway station is right bang in the centre of Amsterdam, just a few minutes walk from all the attractions....CyaD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #9 April 14, 2002 i really dig amsterdam. they have a certain freedom there that we DO NOT have here and i am not just talking about the coffee shops!"remember when we were in africa" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChromeBoy 0 #11 April 15, 2002 Quote skreamer because he missed his flight the first time..... You mean he wasn't 4 hours early? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyrose7 0 #12 April 15, 2002 I was supposed to meet my brother at Schipol and got lost. He didnt know that once you went through customs, you couldn't go back. He just wanted to get his luggage and then meet me at my gate (I was an hour late). Finally, our walkie talkies kicked in and we found eachother. I was kinda nervous for a bit--first time out of North America.The mind is like a parachute--it works better when it is open. JUMP. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pdj6p 0 #13 April 15, 2002 If I had known there would be a test I might have studied.Don Death is so permanant, and I'm just not ready for that kind of committment. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ramon 0 #14 April 15, 2002 I spent quite a while looking for the cig machine ramon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #15 April 15, 2002 And your only an hour from Teuge (home of the great Martijn van Damm, and Henny Wiggers), by train.......I've seen canopies from that train, and it runs regularly......CyaD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fonz 0 #16 April 15, 2002 [Sort of fell right into the middle of this - sorry]First: as far as I know, Schiphol (as Amsterdam Airport is commonly called) isn't very big (on the contrary, I think it's rather compact) and there's direction signs all over the place so it should be completely easy to get around.Second: although we Dutchies love to complain about it, the infrastructure is pretty good. Trains right into the heart of downtown Amsterdam leave every 10 or 15 minutes or so and trains run to other major western cities such as Leiden, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht at least once every hour, 24/7.Third: dunno about the cigarettes but no doubt you can get them somewhere anytime. Many Dutchies smoke! By the way: note that currently no alcohol may be served between (I think) 2 am and 6 am due to the homeless alledgedly causing trouble.Fourth: Amsterdam can really suck if you don't know your way around. But if you do know where to find the hot spots, then... well... let's keep it at least a tad decent okay As the great David Letterman would say: "It's a cesspool!"Fifth: I grew up in Apeldoorn, a (for Dutch understanding) major city almost adjacent to Teuge. And although Teuge is easily accessible by train (and a bus for the last couple of miles), no way do you get there in an hour or less (not by train, anyway ).Sixth: Martijn's last name is spelled with one M (van Dam, not van Damm) and as far as I know, he's still a fulltime clown and skygod at Skydive Teuge.Alphonshttp://www.liacs.nl/~avwerven/skydive Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #17 April 15, 2002 Fonz, sorry about spelling Martijn's name wrong, I was travelling that line every fortnight a lot last summer (Between Amsterdam and Bad Bentheim--first stop over the German border--yuk--not far from Hengelo--nice), and I'm pretty sure Teuge (Deventer?) was about an hour out of the Dam......That was on an IC train...Okay, mebbe a little longer. The point I was trying to make was that you can have fun jumping in Holland, and its quite easy to get around, one point I didn't make was that the folks at Teuge are real friendly..BTW as far as I'm concerned Holland (or more politely, the Netherlands) rocks.CyaD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fonz 0 #18 April 15, 2002 Quote sorry about spelling Martijn's name wrong, Hey, it's not my name you got wrong. Just thought I'd point it out. That's all. No harm done or anything.QuoteOkay, mebbe a little longerGuess it depends on one's definition of distance. I checked and it takes about an hour and a half. Not a big deal QuoteThe point I was trying to make was that you can have fun jumping in HollandThat's quite okay.Quoteone point I didn't make was that the folks at Teuge are real friendly..I have some experiences proving the opposite, but let's not go there. I suppose you can have fun at most DZs if you like the kind of people that hang out there.QuoteRegardless of what David Letterman says.Actually, he means New York. I merely applied that quote of his to Amsterdam and I meant it in a positive way, just as I think Dave does with NY. Amsterdam really can be a lot of funAlphonshttp://www.liacs.nl/~avwerven/skydive Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fonz 0 #20 April 15, 2002 Quotehard core porn DVDs at the news agent.. allegedly.... Not sure if the news agency has them, but no doubt the CD/Video/DVD shops do.Ever been in an adult shop? They have things of which you can't even imagine what they're used for.Alphonshttp://www.liacs.nl/~avwerven/skydive Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #21 April 16, 2002 Schiphol airport rocks! It's like a mall, but with a bunch of foreigners!I've been there before on my way to various countries for business and was really impressed. Found lots of goodies for cheap and engaged in a lot of people watching.Kris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #22 April 16, 2002 "but with a bunch of foreigners"What, like Dutch people ??CyaD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ramon 0 #23 April 16, 2002 hmm only one I talked to was Norwegian.And all the girls were beautiful and .....skinny..heheheramon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #24 April 16, 2002 Skinny eh? , well to paraphrase the Wizard of Oz, "I guess your not in Texas now Toto" Ya should have gotten out of the internet cafe's and gone downstairs to the Cone Bar hombre....Top spot for some international people watching, while watching big planes (and little girls) .....CyaD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ramon 0 #25 April 16, 2002 Lots of stewardesses (I mean flight attendants) in their cute little Blue (KLM) uniforms nudge nudge, know what I meanramon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
