…find your favourites, you will keep going there. 8. Listen to music on the canals with Grachtenfestival (canal festival) The Grachtenfestival turns Amsterdam’s canals into the world’s most gorgeous concert hall every August, for about 10 days. Floating pontoons are built in the city center, and classical music mixes with the sounds of bycicles and seagulls cry. The concerts are in various locations throughout the city, not only on the canals: on c…
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…over the city’s past), or admire the Botanic Garden. To do: walk along the canals (Oude Gracht is the most beautiful), climb the Dom Tower, have a boat ride and dinner at the restaurants next to the canals. Getting around: on foot. Fun fact: Residents of Utrecht are unsure if they should be referred to as Utrechters or Utrechtenaars. 4. Leiden: around 40 min by train from Amsterdam. Province: South Holland Leiden is a university city, packed with…
Read More…rms, the Dutch are happy: lakes and canals have frozen and they can do one of their favourite activities – skating on natural ice. Yes, the miracle happened. After a week of painfully cold temperatures, everything is frozen, even some canals in Amsterdam , where this doesn’t happen too often (last time was in 2012). The Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht are frozen partially, as well as other smaller canals. The photos below are taken on Egelantiersg…
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Read More…therlands will certainly freeze (some already had). But will the Amsterdam canals freeze again? Last time when I saw them frozen was in 2012, and it was a great sight. In case you didn’t know, Dutch people are obsessed with skating on natural ice and they take every opportunity they have to do so. It’s beautiful, and, although I can’t skate, I can have fun watching the skaters, maybe take cool pictures and walk on the ice a bit. Here are some phot…
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…beginnings it was only a collection of a few cottage houses surrounded by canals and connected with bridges, the village developed along the years, like everything else around it. There are roads that lead to Giethoorn and also inside the village. A bus will take you there, or you can go by car and park somewhere convenient. Only the old part of the village is now an interconnected network of canals, but there are walking and biking paths along t…
Read More…It’s spring and all trees in Amsterdam started to cover themselves with a layer of fresh green leaves. When the sun shines above them, a green light falls over the canals and the water takes on the colour of the leaves. I’ve never seen this kind of green light and must admit I’m totally in love! It gives me great energy and an optimistic mood. I tried to capture the beauty in some photos to keep it for the rest of the year….
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…gh Middle Ages, with beautiful architecture. Utrecht also has very special canals — their wharves and wharf cellars are unique. Getting around is really easy, I recommend walking or cycling because most of the points of interest can be reached on foot. There are several museums and monuments worth visiting, but one day is not enough to see all of them. You’ll have to choose the ones that are most interesting to you: perhaps the Railway Museum, the…
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…and cozy Amsterdam is and you can really feel at home just walking around canals – especially during evenings as evenings here are just magical. My favourite part about photography is how it can take people to places they cannot experience otherwise. So many people reached out to me saying my captures inspire them to visit Amsterdam and it is so special to be able to do that and to witness people falling in love with this beautiful city through t…
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…best of it, like that morning when I went out to see the sunrise over the canals. It wasn’t a spectacular sunrise, mind you, but a regular one was welcome nonetheless. I love the fresh air of the morning, the stillness, the sun slowly rising over the old city. And the coffee tastes so much better after a walk! —————————————————————– Stay tuned for more and follow Amsterdamian on Instagram and Facebook for daily stories about life in the Netherlan…
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