The Dutch and international companies will be presenting their latest boat designs creating wonders in the event which is divided in three nautical theme; Adventure, pleasure and luxury. Besides this, revelation of a variety of new maritime products, clothing and accessories will also be offered here. Presentation, lectures and workshops are also arranged by water sports enthusiasts. The place is easily reachable by free pedestrian ferry boat which leaves behind Amsterdam’s Central Station.

Generally many of these buildings are normally visited but some of them like De Waag (15th century city gate building), Beer Brewery (brewery under a wind mill), Tower of the old Church (oldest building), Huis met de Hoofden (beautiful canal house), Museumwerf’t Kromhout (an old ship wharf), tower of the Zuiderkerk (early 17th century tower which can be climbed) and other are opened especially for this weekend only.

The real entertainment will start during the last day where about 80 decorated boats along with a lot of music and number of boys and girls sails through Prinsengracht canal and Amstel River. The canal Parade will start at about 2 pm and will take about 3-4 hours to reach the end.

After the hard work of years, eventually the floating Dutchman, a new attraction in Amsterdam is ready to entertain the visitors. This Floating Dutchman is actually an amphibious bus that conducts a splendid ‘splashing tour’ through the water in the canals. The tour initiates from the Schiphol Airport to the highway into Amsterdam’s city centre, from here it turns to the Amstel river near the science Centre NEMO and continue through Nieuwe Herengracht, the skinny bridge – ‘Magere Brug’, the Royal Theatre Carre, the Blauwburg and the Amsterdam City hall via the Oude Schans, Oosterdok, returns to NEMO and after exiting the canal comes back to Amsterdam Airport. In reality after getting into the water an electric engine drives the bus. The complete tour consumes about 2 hours and 45 minutes so to enjoy this tour one needs to have minimum of 4 hours of transfer time. During the ride one can’t get off, neither there is any stoppage. It has been especially planned for transferring passengers on airport of Amsterdam. It is an exciting opportunity for the visitors who have long layover at Amsterdam Airport or with a tight schedule to visit the sightseeing in “splashbus”. Many Trips are conducted daily after a short time interval.

But visitors need not to get worried or depressed as the artist’s masterpieces along with a number of works on paper will get lurched to the Hermitage Amsterdam, which is located nearby, during this period. Art lovers will be allowed to visit and appreciate the collection in the Hermitage Amsterdam in the course of that tenure.

Netherlands was the first country that legalized general marriage for same sex couple in 2001. Today 1st of April marks a decade of gay marriage for Netherlands. Helene Faasen and Anne- Marie was the first Dutch couple to enjoy first legally same sex marriage in 2001 and walk down into an historic moment. At that time several sex couples marriages were concluded before mayor Job Cohen at the city’s town hall. Since then the number of married lesbian couples has been increased to about 13,000.

Today a special wedding ceremony is going to be celebrated in Amsterdam in which many gay couples marriages will be concluded by current mayor Eberhard van der Laan. Mayor added “It is exactly 10 years ago today that the first same sex marriage was celebrated by my predecessor.” Many of the events have been organized in the city to mark the occasion. A photo exhibition has also been conducted at Amsterdam’s town hall to celebrate the event.