Amsterdam travel guides & articles
All 9 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Amsterdam — newest first.
Amsterdam's Houseboat Families Who Never Left the Water
Inside the canal-side world where roughly 2,500 licensed houseboats are still real family homes, and where a visitor can tour, eat or sleep aboard one in 2026.
Stalls, Stroopwafels and the Art of the Bargain: Amsterdam's Street Markets, Ranked
A working portrait of Amsterdam through its market stalls — what to eat, what to actually buy, and which stallholders have been at it for decades.
Amsterdam's Indonesian rijsttafel — the elaborate rice-table feast born in colonial Indonesia that became Amsterdam's most distinctive dining tradition. The tokos, the family-run restaurants, and the dishes that tell a complicated history.
Twelve tables, one contested history: how to eat Amsterdam's rice-table tradition honestly, from Michelin-starred dining rooms to a toko with two chairs.
Amsterdam's Hidden Hofjes: The Courtyard Almshouses the Canal Tours Skip
Seven Golden Age courtyard almshouses hide behind unmarked doors across Amsterdam's Jordaan and city centre in 2026 - free to enter, still lived in, and skipped by every canal-tour script.
The Free Fleet: Amsterdam's IJ Ferries and the North Bank That Opened Overnight
Five routes cross the IJ for nothing at all, day and night — the cheapest way into Amsterdam's most interesting district, and the best free ride in the city.
The Water That Built Amsterdam: Inside the Grachtengordel
A calm, practical guide to seeing Amsterdam's canal ring the way it was meant to be seen — from the water, from a brown café terrace, and from inside the houses the canals paid for.
Amsterdam on Two Wheels: Ferries, Free Routes, and the Unwritten Rules of the Bike Lane
How to hire the right bike, decode the etiquette of the fietspad, and find the free ferries and car-free loops where cycling Amsterdam is a pleasure, not a nerve test.
Inside Amsterdam's Proeflokalen: Where Jenever Is Still Poured the Old Way
A calm, honest guide to the tiled tasting rooms, brown cafés and modern bars where Amsterdam still serves its native spirit brim-full — and how to drink it without spilling a drop.
Amsterdam's Best Brown Cafés That Locals Actually Drink In
A calm, honest walk through fourteen genuine bruine kroegen — which suit a quiet pair, which swallow a group whole, and the exact tram stop and pint price for each.