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SAIL Amsterdam 2025: Everything You Need to Know About This Amazing Sailing Festival

SAIL Amsterdam 2025: Everything You Need to Know About This Amazing Sailing Festival

Posted by | May 12, 2025 | , ,

…the ships remain open in the evening until 23:00. Sailing Heritage: Fleet Review (Orange Ocean, Thursday 21 August, 08:00-12:00). On Thursday morning you can enjoy a unique parade on the water: the Fleet Review of Sailing Heritage. Around a hundred classic ships sail in formation towards the Stenen Hoofd and then to the SAILSation area: from botters to skûtsjes and from clippers to tjalks. You will hear the story of each of these ships, as a trib…

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Reset Days: We All Need Them

Reset Days: We All Need Them

Posted by | Jul 13, 2021 | ,

…things that you want to do in the next week and what you will postpone. 4. Review your goals. If you are a super organised, goal-setting person and you have goals set for a quarter or half a year, review them, see where you stand, assess the progress you’ve made, think about what can you do next to achieve the goals. Dedicate as much time as you feel fit to this task. 5. Organise your digital space. The most dreaded task for me, which never feels…

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Discovering Amsterdam with Context Travel

Discovering Amsterdam with Context Travel

Posted by | Jun 25, 2019 | ,

…pen their knowledge of it. Disclaimer: I received complimentary tickets to review this tour. However, all the opinions expressed here are entirely my own, as usual. The company asked me to do an objective review and the guides were not informed in advance about the reason of my presence there. Walking tours are loveliest in the long evenings — pair one with ideas from what to do in Amsterdam in summer. Stay tuned for more and follow Amsterdamian o…

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Theatre Evening: Becky Shaw

Theatre Evening: Becky Shaw

Posted by | Feb 14, 2018 | ,

…hoto credits: Arjen Veldt. Disclaimer: I received complimentary tickets to review this show. However, all the opinions expressed here are my own. Stay tuned for more and follow Amsterdamian on Instagram and Facebook for more stories about life in the Netherlands, written by a real local, updated constantly. Check out my photo book: Amsterdam Through the Seasons! Love what you’re reading? Support my work with a small donation. Subscribe to the news…

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East Mediterranean Food in Amsterdam: NENI

East Mediterranean Food in Amsterdam: NENI

Posted by | Sep 9, 2019 | ,

…commodating (or is it just me having this issue?). Usually, when I write a review of a restaurant where I was invited as a guest, I try to tone it down and not be too enthusiastic about it, because I don’t want people to think I’m chanting songs of praise just because I received a free dinner. But this time I have no intention on doing that: I loved NENI, the food was amazing — and that simply needs to be said! Although the place was packed, we di…

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Eleven Years of Blogging

Eleven Years of Blogging

Posted by | Feb 14, 2022 | ,

…ed having ambitions about something more. In 2014 I wrote my first theatre review, for Orange Tea Theatre, which later became Orange Theatre Company, and got many more reviews from me. I wrote about festivals like Gay Pride, about organic shops in Amsterdam, the cat café, canal cruises, Indian cooking, and many more. I started writing more about the Netherlands, and sometimes about my home country, Romania. In 2018 I’ve done my first interviews, a…

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Theatre Evening: ‘Red’ by John Logan

Theatre Evening: ‘Red’ by John Logan

Posted by | Nov 13, 2017 | ,

It appears that I’ve been very lucky lately in the cultural events I have attended. I’ve seen some great shows in Amsterdam recently, the latest one being Orange Tea Theatre’s interpretation of “Red” by John Logan, a Tony Award winning play, directed by Lora Mander. I went to see the premiere and loved it! The setting was well chosen — an art gallery instead of a theatre. The Beeldend Gesproken Gallery in de Hallen was a perfect place to watch th…

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Love and Human Connection in Tinder Times: (Red Heart, Blank Face)

Love and Human Connection in Tinder Times: (Red Heart, Blank Face)

Posted by | Oct 7, 2018 | , ,

The ❤😐 (Red Heart, Blank Face) movie was shot entirely with an iPhone. The title is actually composed of two emoticons (the text in the brackets merely explains to the less knowledgeable what the emoticons mean). The director is a young, ambitious man who wanted to make his second feature film before turning 30. All the profits from the premiere will be donated to a charity. The movie is about how people look for love these days, how finding huma…

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Symphonic Cinema at the Concertgebouw

Symphonic Cinema at the Concertgebouw

Posted by | May 13, 2018 | ,

Have you heard about the concept of symphonic cinema? I just learned about it a few weeks ago when I was invited by the Amsterdam Culture Club to a lovely event taking place at the Concertgebouw. So, what is symphonic cinema? I have to say: it’s a pretty cool thing! It is a film genre introduced by the Dutch film director Lucas van Woerkum: he creates the film starting from the music (usually a well known piece of classical music), unlike the usu…

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Hot Country, Cold Winter: Armenian Film at the EYE

Hot Country, Cold Winter: Armenian Film at the EYE

Posted by | Sep 16, 2018 | ,

Yesterday I went to the Eye Filmmuseum to interview David Safarian, the Armenian film director whose prize-winning work will be screened there next week, in preparation for the European release of his feature film, Hot Country, Cold Winter. It’s the first time in the last 25 years when an Armenian film gets an European release, so it’s something not to be missed.  Before I take my time to put together our fascinating talk, I thought I should tell…

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