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.

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.

Throughout his career he won 65 races which was a record. In his successful journey he won the tour of Netherlands in 1960, the tour of Germany in 1962 and in 1963 he turned into a national road race champion by winning the Netherlands national championship and the tour of Belgium. In 1964 he got the greatest victory in edition of Paris-Roubaix, when he became the first Dutchman to win the race. After his retirement (in 1972) he became one of the most successful directors of his era maneuvering the TI-Raleigh teams from 1974-1992 and then moved to head the Novemail-Histor squad till 1994. He got back to sports field for a short time in 2005 and played an advisory role to the Dutch Rabobank team. He directed a number of stars including Zoetemelk, Hennie Kuiper, Jan Raas, Olaf Ludwig, Phil Anderson and Eric Vanderaerden in the list.

At Christie’s auction, an Andy Warhol’s portrait ‘The portrait of Queen Beatrix of Netherlands’ from one of the series of ‘Ruling Queen’ sold for 530 thousand dollars (409,000 euros). Maarten van Dzhiyn, the agency representative of the auction house said that a Dutch company engaged in the organization of exhibition (from Triton foundation) has become the owner of the portrait now. He added that the pink portrait of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will go on display at the State Museum (Rijksmuseum) in Amsterdam. The occasion of its display is still unknown. This portrait of Queen was written in 1985 by the renowned ‘masters of Pop Art’ – Andy Warhol. Other than Queen Beatrix images of Britain Queen Elizabeth II, the Danish Queen Margarethe and Swaziland Queen Ntombi laTfwala are also been included in this series. Queen Beatrix has been praised by Warhol as ’the best looking of the bunch.’