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Bento Box at a fancy Japanese restaurant in Amsterdam called Momo

Calculating the restaurant tip: why I don’t use percentages (and my own unusual approach)

10/6/2011 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Amsterdam | 3 Comments

Tipping in restaurants. Do you do it? Here in Amsterdam, it’s not expected. You can, and if you do, any amount > 0 is fine. [Though I’d guess anything less than 10 cents would be frowned upon as not even worth the trouble.] In the U.S., the usual approach to tips is to do 15%…Continue Reading…

T-Mobile in Amsterdam

9/22/2011 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Amsterdam | No Comments

T-Mobile offers a pre-paid SIM card which is pre-perforated to be a Micro-SIM for iPhone 4. It costs 19.95 EUR and includes 2 GB of data until the end of the current month. Protip: Buy one near the beginning of the month (e.g. September 1st, not September 30th). There’s an extensive tram system in the…Continue Reading…