Created: 22-02-2004
Last update: 21-03-2004

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Duivendrecht



Duivendrecht lies somewhere between Utrecht and Amsterdam, from the train passenger's point of view. It really is little more than a train station with some extremely dreary apartment blocks around it. Its main draw is something called the Ajax Stadion, which all football fans seem to know about but which I, not being a football fan, managed to completely oversee despite its prominent logo. The station has several floors, so one has to run up and down stairs to find one's platform. It also has a "metro" (the Dutch Underground, although most of it doesn't run underground) track, and very much the steel-painted-in-primary-colours metro station look.



Just like a metro station.


Heartbreakingly ugly buildings along the track, including a set of twin towers.


More ugly buildings; big ones. This is evidently the Yellow Pages company, the sign on the building shows the trademark leafing walking hand.


The well-known but long-ignored Ajax Stadion.






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