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

by Dana Marin | May 12, 2025 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Culture and Events | 0

What is SAIL Amsterdam? SAIL Amsterdam is a festival that truly represents Amsterdam’s...

Culture in the Red Light District: Straat Vol Kunst

by Dana Marin | Apr 29, 2025 | Amsterdam, Culture and Events | 0

Red Light in a Different Light: A Day of Art and Stories in the Sint Annenkwartier On Saturday, 13...

Lighting the Way: A Guide to the Amsterdam Light Festival

by Dana Marin | Nov 5, 2024 | All Photos, Amsterdam, Lifestyle | 0

November, with its shorter, rainy and grey days is here, but fear not, because there are things...

Travel Back in Time to Medieval Alkmaar: Kaeskoppenstad Festival

by Dana Marin | Jun 9, 2022 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

Kaeskoppenstad Festival is a cool medieval festival in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. For two days, in...

Cool events in Amsterdam and beyond, March 2020

by Dana Marin | Feb 29, 2020 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 0

Hello my dears! Here comes the monthly list of cool events happening in Amsterdam and beyond in...

Best festivals in the Netherlands: GLOW Eindhoven 2019

by Dana Marin | Jan 25, 2020 | All Photos, Culture and Events, The Netherlands | 0

The GLOW Festival takes places every November in Eindhoven, a city in the south of the...

Eindhoven Day Trip Guide: How to Spend the Perfect Day in the City of Light

by Dana Marin | Nov 19, 2018 | All Photos, City Guides, The Netherlands | 0

If Eindhoven would be a person, it would be one of those people who are ugly by all standards, but...

GLOW Eindhoven 2018 – A Very Cool Light Art Festival

by Dana Marin | Nov 13, 2018 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 0

They call Eindhoven “The City of Light”. I’m not sure who came up with this...

Cultural Events I’m Looking Forward to This Autumn (2018)

by Dana Marin | Sep 5, 2018 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 2

As the autumn is settling in, the relaxed pace of summer days seems to dissipate, giving way to a...

Vegan Food Festival 2018

by Dana Marin | Aug 19, 2018 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 0

Last weekend, at the Westergasfabriek, the air was filled with delicious flavours, all of them coming from stalls selling vegan food. This was one of the many vegan events of the year in Amsterdam. Looks like the vegan movement...

Pride 2018 Amsterdam: the Canal Parade

by Dana Marin | Aug 15, 2018 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 0

Confetti, pink tutus, angel wings, rainbows and unicorns everywhere, balloons that would make a shy person blush, exposed six-packs and pectorals, street parties, colourful boats sailing down the canal — this was the Canal...

Elfia Festival 2018

by Dana Marin | May 2, 2018 | All Photos, People and Stories | 1

Another spring, another Elfia Festival! We were very lucky with the weather this year: the festival took place during the short heatwave that hit the Netherlands in April. It was a bit too warm, especially for people with...

Things to do in April in Amsterdam: a wish list

by Dana Marin | Mar 27, 2018 | All Photos, Lifestyle | 2

There are many cool events happening in Amsterdam in April. Since the first half of the month I’m on holiday, I made my list only for the second part of the month, and looks like it will be busy. The highlight of the...

10 Things I’m Looking Forward To This Spring

by Dana Marin | Mar 20, 2018 | All Photos, Lifestyle | 0

I saw this title on The Dainty Squid blog and I thought it would be a fun exercise to do tonight, while waiting for the actual spring to arrive (not the meteorological nor the astronomical one, but the mighty Spring itself with...