Amsterdam tourists who get winded walking around the Van Gogh Museum, or find the Anne Frank House a tad depressing, probably won't like the city's latest attraction. The charity group Voila is offering the chance to be homeless for a day. For $24, visitors can surrender their wallets (changing into rags is optional) and embark on a day of soup kitchens and aimless wandering. "Now you can feel what it's like for one day and still have the luxury of sleeping in your own bed," says one of the street people who serve as guides. Or not. Voila will offer three-day "survival weekends" once it gets warms enough to sleep under Amsterdam's scenic bridges.
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Newsweek, March 10, 1997:
