The Amsterdams tourist office latest programme neatly gets to the heart of the Dutch capital: "Amsterdam: City on the Water". This is a city like Venice founded on and still today focused around water and waterways, though unlike Venice, Hollands largest city is no mere museum piece. Amsterdam is a real, living and breathing metropolis, not just an oasis for tourists, those who like "a smoke"and men in search of extra-marital sex. In the canals beneath the stag parties and working girls, young Internet entrepreneurs strike deals across Europe from their houseboats and just outside the old core is the RAI, one of the continents key conference and business hubs. As well as the chugging canal boats, the city's waterways also increasingly play home to massive cruise ships and cargo vessels from all over the world.   During the summer, the city comes together in Vondelpark, where locals and tourists alike relax in the balmy weather. Take a cruise on a canal or even partake in that most ubiquitous of Amsterdam pastimes, ride their bicycles ( Amsterdams winters tend to be cold with plenty of rain but this seldom seems to deter the tourists, who flock to the city. Particularly cold winters also offer the unique chance for visitors to witness Amsterdamers skating across the picturesquely frozen canals. These days with plenty of rail, bus and air connections to all over Europe and further afield, the Dutch capital is a year round tourist destination as well as one of the world's key business hubs.