Travel, eat, repeat.
Between the Singel Canal and the Prinsengracht Canal are nine tiny streets known in Amsterdam as De 9 Straatjes. In addition to great bars and cafes, shopping on the Nine Streets is outstanding. There is a great assortment of eclectic concept shops, designer boutiques, gift stores and art galleries worth checking out on an afternoon in the […]
Having lived in Amsterdam for a few months now, it only seems appropriate to update one of my all-time favorite posts. I originally wrote this post about a year ago, after having spent only four days in Amsterdam. Now that I call Amsterdam home, I have fallen even more deeply in love with the wide […]
Dutch cuisine isn’t exactly something people talk about. Italian food, absolutely. Spanish food, most definitely. Chinese food, uhh duh! But Dutch food doesn’t typically rank high in the Michelin world. Of course, being the food-loving traveler that I am, I sought out to find the best street foods in Amsterdam. The Top 7 street foods in Amsterdam […]
I was kicked out of a restaurant I was kicked out of a restaurant in Amsterdam but ended up at Thaise Snack Bar Bird to eat some of Amsterdam’s favorite Thai food! So, back to getting kicked out. It was one of those restaurants that appears a bit dingy from the front door. Once we were […]
From the outside, Café de Klos looks like a traditional 17th century brown café. A brown café is the name the Dutch use to describe a quintessential Dutch pub. Café de Klos is actually the best place to go for barbecue in the city. A small wood-paneled room from floor to ceiling with heavy wooden […]
The Rotterdam Markthal in Blaak square opened it’s doors for the first time on October 1, 2014. Since then this complex has been open daily and is a famed national landmark. The first floor is an open market with 96 stands. Situated below it, are a grocery store and a four story parking lot. But […]
Kinderdijk, pronounced Kinder (like the candy bar) dike (not dijek, like I was saying it), is a small village about 18 miles outside of Rotterdam in South Holland. Kinderdijk is unique in that it has 19 windmills concentrated in a very small area. Some of the windmills at Kinderdijk date back to as early as […]
The most well-known garden in the Land of Tulips is Keukenhof. Keukenhof is the world’s largest flower park and is just a short drive from Amsterdam.