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Amsterdam Light Festival 2025: A Winter Glow Over the Canals

Posted by Dana Marin | Oct 25, 2025 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Culture and Events

…te goes through the heart of Amsterdam, with artworks positioned along the canals, beside them, and occasionally even in the water itself. You can experience the installations from multiple perspectives, by boat on the canals or on foot along the streets. Festival app: To find the exact route, you need to download the festival’s app, which will be available in the app store as of 7 November. The app contains audio guides as well. The map and the a…

What to Do in Amsterdam in Summer

Posted by Dana Marin | Jul 14, 2025 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Lifestyle

…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…

Best Day Trips from Amsterdam: 16 Dutch Cities You Need to Visit

Posted by Dana Marin | Jan 29, 2025 | All Photos, The Netherlands

…Rietveld Schröderhuis, 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. 👉 READ HERE MY FULL GUIDE TO UTRECHT: Things to Do in Utrecht: a Complete Guide to Discovering the City and Its Sur…

Skating on the Frozen Canals in Amsterdam

Posted by Dana Marin | Mar 3, 2018 | All Photos, Amsterdam

…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…

Spring cleaning on the canals

Posted by Dana Marin | Feb 25, 2015 | All Photos, Lifestyle

…you swim in the canals in the summer, you do it at your own risk!…

Waiting for the Canals to Freeze

Posted by Dana Marin | Feb 24, 2018 | All Photos, Lifestyle

…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…

Canal Adventures. Renting a Boat for the Amsterdam Light Festival

Posted by Dana Marin | Dec 16, 2025 | Amsterdam, Lifestyle

…inter: not too cold, no wind and no rain; a perfect night to be out on the canals in an open boat. I met my friends in the Westerdok area, where we picked up our boat from Eco Boats Amsterdam, a boat rental company that works exclusively with electric boats. The company also operates under the name Canal Motorboats, which is part of the same organisation. I like that their boats are electric: you can enjoy the canals without polluting them, and th…

What to Do in Amsterdam in 2026: A Guide to Main Events Throughout the Year

Posted by Dana Marin | Jan 9, 2026 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Culture and Events

…adings and activities. De Amsterdamse Grachtenrace — 10 October, Amsterdam canals De Amsterdamse Grachtenrace (Canal Race) is a long-standing rowing event in which teams of rowers compete in traditional sloops along a course that winds through Amsterdam’s canals, usually covering around 21–25 kilometres of waterway. Afrovibes Festival – Date TBA, various locations Afrovibes Festival presents contemporary performing arts from Africa and the African…

A Magical Place: Giethoorn, the Village With No Roads

Posted by Dana Marin | Apr 12, 2025 | All Photos, The Netherlands

…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…

Fresh green over the canals

Posted by Dana Marin | Apr 19, 2011 | All Photos, Amsterdam

…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….