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Jennifer Lenhart of the Urban Observer imparts the joys of Amsterdam and explains why there’s more to the capital of the Netherlands than bicycles, boats and booze My name is Jennifer Lenhart and I’m ...

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 ...

Amsterdam is one of the most popular cities in the world to visit, and with good reason. Its scenic canals, meandering cobble stone streets and inventive architecture can satisfy the most ravenous ...

AMSTERDAM -- In the several years I have lived as an expat in Amsterdam, I probably pedaled past the city's old stock exchange building, the "beurs," more than a hundred times without noticing a ...

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 ...

This city is a place of contradictions, with tranquil canals and grand 17th-century houses paired with extremely progressive mentalities and the Red Light District. Amsterdam is a place of ...