So goes the catchy saying you can find on t-shirts in The Netherlands’ second-largest city and main economic hub.
My Airbnb host, Edwin, and a fellow traveler also staying at the Airbnb, Nicole, and I were out for dinner and drinks one night and the discussion turned to stereotypes people had about where will live (The Netherlands, California and New York, respectively).
While there are many small art museums and galleries scattered across Amsterdam, the four heavyweights sit within spitting distance from one another at Museumplein (Museum Square).
The Dutch, like so many European peoples, have a history that is anything but straightforward. Before 1830, The Netherlands and its current borders didn’t even exist. The region’s early history is a tangled web of land changing hands and various feudal city-states rising and falling over the centuries. It’s…
I was confronted with a jumble of mixed emotions as I boarded my KLM flight bound for Amsterdam. Still reeling from the travel high of my recent journey to Accra, Lomé and Porto-Novo, I was hesitant that regardless of wherever my next destination might be, I was bound…