Repair café
In several communitycentres in Amsterdam, Repair Café takes place every month. People can come with their broken furniture, clothing or computers and try to fix it. Tools are provided by the community centre.
In several communitycentres in Amsterdam, Repair Café takes place every month. People can come with their broken furniture, clothing or computers and try to fix it. Tools are provided by the community centre.
Restaurant Instructables opened in Amsterdam. This restaurant is a so-called “open source restaurant”. This means that of everything you eat in the restaurant, the recipe can be found on their website, as well as an instruction about how to recreate the furniture.
Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in The Netherlands is the first airport in Europe that has two ordering colums at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Lounge 3 (behind the passport check). Guests can use a touchscreen for their orders and pay by debit or credit card.
On January 19th (Utrecht Central Station), January 21st (Amsterdam Central Station) and Jan 26th (The Hague Central Station) orange lunchboxes were distributed, filled with an apple and a flyer. The distribution was part of a European campaign ‘Apple. Fruit of all pleasure’ of the FruitsVegetables Office. The aim of the campaign is to create a healthy work ethics for employees.
Website www.nieuwemensenlerenkennen.nl organized a snowballfight at Amsterdam’s most famouw park, the Vondelpark. The event is primarily targeted toward singles. Afterwards there will be glühwein for all participants.