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If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Amsterdam. I envision spending my days clutching bunches of tulips, cycling along the canal and waving to locals (everyone I’ve ever met in Amsterdam ...

On a chilly and uncharacteristically sunny spring day, I stepped onto a small boat off the Prinsegracht canal and sped north on the Zaan river to preview the soon-to-open ZAMU Amsterdam museum, ...

Amsterdam is one of those destinations that is there in the wishlist of every passionate traveller who dream to visit every part of the world at some point of their lives. Thanks to the colourful ...

Rodney Bolt is an author, travel writer and hotel expert who has lived in Amsterdam for more than 30 years. He writes or contributes to scores of guidebooks, including for Cadogan, Fodors and Time Out ...

Reducing Amsterdam to the sum of its coffee shops and red lit doors is to do a charming and sophisticated city a great disservice. And in the last twenty or so years, the Netherlands capital has ...

You may have noticed an interesting reaction when you tell people you’re traveling to Amsterdam. They sometimes get that curious look, that knowing half-smile on their faces. “Amsterdam,” they say ...

Rodney Bolt is an author, travel writer and hotel expert who has lived in Amsterdam for more than 30 years. He writes or contributes to scores of guidebooks, including for Cadogan, Fodors and Time Out ...

Amsterdam is an almost bafflingly charming city. On one hand, its tourist hordes often swell to such a terrible degree that it seems like it should be impossible to enjoy its abundant delights. On the ...

The Dutch are a notoriously blunt lot. Ask for a coffee and expect a quick ‘What else?’; get a dodgy haircut and wait for the immediate guffaws, and woe betide anyone who actually asks for an opinion ...