Amsterdam neighbourhoods: an autumn day in Stadionbuurt
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You won’t find Stadionbuurt in many Amsterdam travel guides. This neighbourhood is more of a residential one, where people go on about their lives undisturbed by tourist crowds. In my first year in Amsterdam I used to live close to this area and I took long walks from Rivierenbuurt to Apollobuurt and Stadionbuurt. As I moved further, this became a part of Amsterdam I didn’t have reasons to go to anymore. But recently I rediscovered it, because I was invited to restaurants in that area a couple of times and I found myself again on the streets that brought back old memories. Last time, a few weeks ago, after I went to NENI for a delicious brunch (influencers event, but since I’m no influencer, don’t ask me who was there because I enjoyed only the company of my friend and the food), I went for a walk in the hope I will burn some of the calories and to enjoy the beautiful autumn day.
There is a certain beauty to Amsterdam Zuid neighbourhoods, a homey feeling; they bring the joy of non-instagramable places where you can walk and admire regular shops, boats and canals, Amsterdam School architecture, geese on a canal side and a child ruffling through the fallen leaves.
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Beautiful pictures
Please don’t post about neighbourhoods where Amsterdam people love to live their own lives. We want to keep our high quality living area a pleasure for ourselves and civilised, well mannered, most welcome guests . Civilised, quiet, art and architecture loving visitors have found us for the last 100 years without any mentioning of our neighbourhood in touristguides and travelblogs.
Hi Charlotte, you should not assume that the readers of this blog are not well mannered 🙂
I understand your concern. As a blogger, I face this dilemma very often: should I write about all the places I love or keep them a secret? Sometimes I choose one, sometimes the other. After all, you can find absolutely everything mentioned on big websites like Iamsterdam, so I doubt that censoring what I write about my personal experiences on this blog will keep the people away from certain areas or restaurants.