It's mosquitoes not mosquitos!

Do they have potatos in Amsterdam?

Is Dan Quayle in Amsterdam?

I didn't know they have toes.

If Moses's toes were mosquitoes...

Moses toes and mosquitoes. And little lambs eat ivy.

dfourh gives the best response IMHO.....

Of course: there are mosquitoes in the Netherlands/Amsterdam.

Most of the time, there aren't swarmes of them. Yes maybe in some areas where there is a lot of stagnant water and in periods of high temperatures.

In general, the problem is indeed the single mosquito hiding in your bedroom! or the singel mosquito hoovering around your head when eating out.

So relax and don't worry. Take some DEET with you if you want to. And keeps windows closed up as much as you can in your room, when you have a light on.

You hear it humming with that high pitched whine like a Messerschmidt ready to land on your ear, you turn the light on, and ... nothing. This can last hours. You do NOT want a single mosquito in your room at night, and in summer, you HAVE to take evasive action (the worst being sticking one leg out from under the covers and letting them have at it), >>

that's why the plug-in solution is so good - it rids the room of the mozzies so that it doesn't matter which bits of you are exposed.

We have been to Europe numerous times and the one thing I never stopped to consider is the mosquito population. Now I thinking what other things I have neglected to ask about?

Now I thinking what other things I have neglected to ask about?>>

ah, IMDonehere, the Donald Rumsfeld question - what is it that we don't know that we don't know?

of course, i can't answer that.

Sorry I checked the old photo from Amsterdam, those are not Mosquito toes but just bits of crud on my ipad, must clean in soon.

Sorry for misleading travel advice.

"Now I thinking what other things I have neglected to ask about?"

Actually yes, we had bubonic plague in the late 1300s but it is dying out now. Think that was fleas rather than Mosquitos.

Bubonic plague is alive and well and living in America.
Mosquitoes will be a non problem at the end of October.

I can't believe this thread is still going on.

It's half time Real Madrid v Barcelona.

So this thread survived another post from me.

I've been in Amsterdam many times, even recently, and I never once saw a prostitute. Honestly!

Surely that proves that anyone who contradicts me and says they have existed there for a long time is a troublemaker. After all, the point of paying to travel is to jump to conclusions about what I see in the space of a few days and then lord it over anybody looking for information that I'm a "seasoned" traveler!

My kids and I were eaten alive by the mosquitoes that congregated in the rooms we rented in a canal house last July. It was miserable.

in the space of a few days and then lord it over anybody looking for information that I'm a "seasoned" traveler!>

Well I have spent years and years of spending times by canals - at all times of years - have camped right next to several and never saw a mosquito - it does seem that skeeters in hotel rooms are a problem - annhigh is an un-impeachable source and others too - but the OP question was by canals and there, unless in the last year, have never been any - not even one seen in my 40 years of going to Amsterdam and picnicking and smoking pot by the sides of canals - maybe the cannabis haze kept them away?

It's half time Real Madrid v Barcelona.>>

i just watched Gareth Bales' goal on youtube - magic!

We saw mozzies AND prozzies in Amsterdam - do I get a special prize?

Go Royal Madrid!

"We saw mozzies AND prozzies in Amsterdam - do I get a special prize?"

No, but a nomination for post of the year.

Now then.

Die thread, die.

Let's get the real buzz about skeeters in Amsterdamned!

"We saw mozzies AND prozzies in Amsterdam"

Waiting for the trip report with that title.

I've never seen or heard a skeeter in a coffeeshop!

A skeeter walks into a coffeeshop.

The guy behind the counter asks, "What would you like?"

The skeeter replies, "I'll have the Lebanese blonde."


After that the skeeter goes to the bar next door.

The barkeep asks, "The usual?"

The skeeter replies: "That's what I was hoping, but where IS bloody Mary today anyways?"

A skeeter walks into a bar and says "I need a bite to eat"

Bar tender says we don't serve skeeters here.

Skeeter says: Well I was looking to eat something more substantial.

Bar tender says: Buzz off you jerk!

Not getting any food at the bar, the skeeter went to the Pannenkoeken Cafe next door, only to realize it had all been a sting:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/douglashoyt/13940730134/

skeeter walks into the red-light district - sees a comely well-enwoed young lass and says:

Madame what can I get for 2 euros?

Lady of the night replies:

For that you can barely scratch the surface.

OK says the skeeter that will be just dandy!

skeeter walks into the Flying Dutchman pub near Centraal Station

and asks for "a pils please"

Midlands English tough looking bartender says "we don't serve skeeters here, now buzz off"

Sweeter wings it out

few minutes later skeeter comes back into the Flying Dutchman begging for a beer - man it is so so hot outside "a pils pleeeze"

tough Manchester United type fan bartender says "I just told you we do NOT serve skeeters here - now buzz off!

So skeeters buzzes off...


but shortly later,

skeeter comes back into the Flying Dutchman and tells the bartender, a pils, pleeeeeze, I am so thirty I could kill...

barkeep, finally taking pity on the skeeter, says "OK, OK" and brings him a fresh-drawn pils

And says that will be 60 euros please!

skeeter yells "60 euros - you can't be serious - 60 euros for a pils?"

Barkeep says " that' right 60 euros and pay up or you'll be a bloody trace on the wall" - brandishing his special skeeter squatter all locals have on hand to combat the skeeter epidemic that infests all of Amsterdamned

"OK" skeeter says, pulling 60 euros out of his probiscus.

Barkeep says "Dunk u very wel, pal" - "we don't get many skeeters in here."

Skeeter retorts "No wonder at 60 euros a beer!"

I'll talk, I'll talk, Anne Frank's in the attic, just stop the jokes!

a skeeter noses his way up to the bar...

A skeeter noses his way into the Flying Duchthman pub in Amsterdam - winging it over from a nearby canal and asks the burly English bar tender:

Can I have some blood please?

Ber tender gruffly retorts - sorry this is not a blood bank - we do not serve blood here.

A short while later same skeeter walks into the same bar and asks the same barkeep "Do you have any blood?"

Bar keep says 'no i just told you we don't serve blood here - now get out!

So not long later same skeeter noses her way into the bar and asks "Do you have any blood?"

Bar keep losing his cool says "No - and if you come in again and ask for blood I'll nail your probiscus to the bar"

Lo and behold same skeeter buzzes into same bar and asks same barkeep "do you have any nails?" Barkeep says "no" and skeeter then asks "in that case do you have any blood?"

Dulux?

A skeeter walks into the Bulldog Palace on Leidesplaein and asks for you serve Dulux - I want to paint the town tonight!

a skeeter thinks he is shriking - he looks in the mirror-like water of the canal he and swarms of others inhabit and every day he thinks he is getting smaller.

He goes to the Vrij University of Amsterdam Hospital and sees a veterinarian doc and says, "doc I'm shrinking"

Doc says "It's probably all in your head" -

skeeters buzzes out

but he notices he keeps shrinking - in relation to other skeeters he is smaller and smaller.

He goes back to the same doc -"doc I'm shrinking" - what can you do about it.

And this goes on - until on the next visit the doctor now notices and says "yes you are shrinking" -

skeeter asks "what can you do about it"

Vet says "I guess you'll just have to learn to be a little patient"

Palenq

Keep your day job and and work the night shift too.

IM - buzz off!

When I look up "muggen probleem in amsterdam" (DUTCH) I actually see nothing from any Dutch website relating to the city.
My wife, begin Dutch, but not from AMS, also says she has never heard about this problem.
Some folks like to moan about nothing!

Some folks like to moan about nothing!>>

you wouldn't say that if you'd spent 4 nights in a room infested with them.

I would never question annhig's experiences! Totally unimpeachable! IME

>>>>>>Some folks like to moan about nothing!

Pot ... kettle ... black?

<<<>>>When I look up "muggen probleem in amsterdam" (DUTCH) I actually see nothing...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mosquitoes+in+amsterdam

http://www.asthebirdfliesblog.com/20...l#.U1g7j_ldWSo

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntr...s-in-amsterdam

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic..._Province.html

http://www.zog.net/xanadu-or-bust/jo...iary-mosquito/