Amsterdam at the Hour the Water Goes Still

← Amsterdam · Sensory There’s a specific ten minutes, most evenings, when the canals stop moving. Some links below are affiliate links. We only include places we’d send someone to regardless. More on how this works. Boat traffic thins out after the dinner cruises finish and before the last of the bar crowd spills outside, … Read more

What Amsterdam Hides Behind Its Front Windows

← Amsterdam · Culture & Design There’s a rule in Amsterdam that nobody enforces and everybody follows: curtains stay open. Walk the canal belt after dark and you can see straight into front rooms — a piano, a bookshelf, someone’s actual life — and it took us an embarrassingly long visit to realise this isn’t … Read more

Amsterdam, Away From the Water You Know

← Amsterdam · Itinerary Everyone photographs the same three canals. We stopped going to any of them years ago. Some links below are affiliate links. We only include places we’d send someone to regardless. More on how this works. Amsterdam has a problem most cities would kill for: it’s too easy to love badly. You … Read more