Amsterdam
Canals, art, bikes, and a city-wide atmosphere of joyful freedom
Amsterdam is best understood from a bicycle saddle or a canal boat, slowly. The city's 165 canals thread through a grid of 17th-century merchant houses, and nearly everything worth seeing is within cycling distance. The Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum are world-class. The brown cafes are warm and genuine. The street markets sell everything from stroopwafels to vintage denim.
- 01Stroopwafel warm from a market stall
- 02Bitterballen at Café de Vergulde Gaper
- 03Raw herring (haring) from a street cart
- 04Indonesian rijsttafel at Restaurant Tempo Doeloe
Book Anne Frank House tickets far in advance, they sell out weeks ahead
Rent a bike on day one and immediately feel like a local
Keukenhof tulip gardens are only open April to May
The Jordaan is the best neighbourhood to get deliberately lost in
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