Exploring The Vibrant And Historic Amsterdam With Alessio Colavecchio And Remi Oerlemans

Destination Everywhere

Andy McNeill & Todd Bludworth

Society & Culture, Hobbies, Leisure, Arts, Places & Travel, Food

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Amsterdam, "The Venice of the North," is the capital of the Netherlands and is renowned for its historical attractions, amazing art, and its well-preserved old neighborhoods. It's one of the most culturally diverse cities on the planet - drawing more than 5 million international visitors each year.

Today, we’ll be exploring Amsterdam with the General Manager of The Hilton Amsterdam, Alessio Colavecchio. And sharing the stage is Remi Oerlemans, the creator and owner of Amsterdam’s De Deli and Borri Box, with his take on this incredible city.

We are excited to explore this great European capital city on this episode of Destination Everywhere: Amsterdam.

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0:00.0	Amsterdam. The Venice of the North is the capital of the Netherlands and is renowned for
0:08.1	its historical attractions, amazing art and its well-preserved old neighborhoods. It's
0:12.8	one of the most culturally diverse cities on the planet drawing more than 5,000 international
0:17.3	visitors each year. Today we'll be exploring Amsterdam with the general manager of the
0:21.7	Hilton Amsterdam and sharing the stage is Remi Orlelands, the creator and owner of Amsterdam's
0:28.0	Dedele and Bori Box with this take on this incredible city. We are excited to explore this great
0:34.2	European capital city on this episode of Destination Everywhere, Amsterdam.
0:44.2	Welcome to Destination Everywhere with hospitality and travel entrepreneurs Todd Bloodworth
0:50.2	and Andy McNeil. Having traveled to over a hundred countries, Todd and Andy bring you unique
0:56.6	perspectives with celebrities in the know, hospitality experts and native connoisseurs to discover
1:02.8	must-do's and inspirational destinations to plan your next trip for business or pleasure.
1:08.9	So pack your bags and get ready as we bring you Destination Everywhere with Todd and Andy.
1:17.5	Welcome everyone to this episode of Destination Everywhere. I'm Andy McNeil along with Todd
1:21.7	Bloodworth. I'm excited to bring you Amsterdam this week. It's such a great vibrant city in Europe
1:26.9	and so much history. Todd, you've been there many, many times. What do you remember the most?
1:31.2	We did a couple meetings at a few different hotels and at the Convention Center and everything
1:36.6	around the Convention Center. It's just it's a lot of fun. It's very walkable, lots of shops and
1:40.8	restaurants. So for meetings and events, it's a perfect city to do it. But I just remember kind of
1:46.1	walking around. Kind of I had an expectation and that expectation was much different. Not
1:51.6	an expectation. What is it? I had preconceived ideas of what I thought Amsterdam was and it wasn't
1:56.4	that at all. It's absolutely beautiful. It's historic. Again, lots of canals. I didn't realize
2:02.0	that was that much water in Amsterdam. I don't know why I thought it was a little drier, but it was
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