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Three major canals divide Amsterdam’s Central Canal district into nine little streets that are big on personality. While the more casual shopper may breeze through in an hour or two, serious shoppers can spend an entire day (or more) exploring the quaint boutiques and eateries — all with signature Dutch style — down each lane.
As I was preparing for a recent trip to Amsterdam, I did my usual pre-trip rounds of asking for restaurant recommendations from friends and mining relevant articles and blogs for ideas. Surprisingly, the pickings came back very slim. But there was one trend that proved an exception to the rule.
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There are some amazing events on tap all over the world, all the time. Here’s a taste of what you can see and do in April.
Martijn Hordijk has lived in Rotterdam for more than three years. In addition to working a job that regularly takes him to Aberdeen, Antwerp, and Paris, he shares insider insight about his home base as a blogger for Spotted by Locals. Here are a few of Martijn’s favorite things about the port city that’s been called “the Gateway to Europe.”
I Heart My City: Persephone’s Gouda
Posted by I Heart My City on December 26, 2012 
Longtime expat Persephone Abbott was drawn to Gouda because of its beauty and its location in the Green Heart of Holland. Check out her favorite things about the city made famous by cheese!
World Cup 2010: The Final
Posted by emcnulty on July 11, 2010 The end has arrived. After a month in South Africa of drama and upsets, heartbreak and elation, the two teams that have risen to the pinnacle of the soccer world – the Netherlands and Spain – take the field at 2:30 p.m. Eastern today for the 2010 World Cup Final. This is a match up…
I Heart My City: Bart’s Amsterdam
Posted by I Heart My City on July 29, 2009 Hello, city-lovers! Today we’re exploring to Amsterdam. Local expert Bart van Poll, founder of the fabulous blog Spotted By Locals, explains that the city is so much more than its coffee shops and red light district. Want to see your city on IT? Copy and paste our list of fill-in-the-blank questions into an e-mail, fill…
A Sense of Empowerment
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on January 13, 2009 As if you didn’t think you were productive enough on any given day, some cities are getting commuters to do extra work, simply by going about their normal routine. A train station in the Netherlands is using a revolving door to produce energy for one of its cafes. As people walk through it to get…
Sinterklaas and Santa Claus: An Ocean Apart
Posted by it on December 24, 2007 Contributing writer Cathy Healy was in Amsterdam this year to see some of the festivities that surround the arrival of Sinterklaas – or the Dutch Santa Claus. If you’re naughty, not nice in the Netherlands, Santa’s helpers will stuff you in a sack and take you back to Spain. This is a threat? A free…
Going Dutch
Posted by marilyn terrell on December 21, 2007 Cathy Healy’s post on her favorite Amsterdam hotel reminded me of my favorite Dutch photographer, Jurjen Drenth, whose work has appeared in the Dutch edition of Traveler. I discovered him while fact-checking a story about Delft a while back. When he’s not doing his commercial photography, Drenth hunts down the locations of famous paintings of…
IT’s Reader Roundup: The Last Supper
Posted by it on November 2, 2006 We all know Traveler readers love to eat. With this final installment of our Amsterdam trilogy, they share their favorite places to do just that. Kimberly Ray, of Portland, Oregon, visited Amsterdam on a European vacation a few years back: "I allowed myself to wander the streets with complete abandon. One day I happened upon…
IT’s Reader Roundup: The Sequel
Posted by it on October 24, 2006 Last week we shared a number of tips inspired by "Insiders Amsterdam" with you. This week we continue the series with our readers’ favorite things to do in and around the Dutch capital. Brigid Hayes, of Ottawa, Ontario, visited Amsterdam in July of this year: "We visited the Verzetsmuseum (Dutch Resistance Museum), which explores the…
