The Red Light District
What’s more well known about Amsterdam than its famous red-light district? Perhaps the coffee shops but the first one only opened ...
Origins of Amsterdam
Amsterdam originated where Amstel entered into the Zuiderzee (South Sea), now known as the IJsselmeer (Ijssel lake). This occurred around the ...
1938 Ships Build in the North of Amsterdam
Once the North Sea canal was established, the other side of Amsterdam (The North) became the city’s new shipbuilding centre. All ...
Bank Hope & Co
If there’s trading there is money and if there’s money there’s a bank. When trading money became just as important as ...
The Flower Auction of Aalsmeer (FloraHolland)
If you say Aalsmeer, you say flowers; many tourists feel they cannot leave it out of their itinerary. They must go ...
Squatting in Amsterdam
Squatting is (besides lowering your backside between your ankles) entering a premise without the owner’s permission for habitation, iow, you move ...
The Society of Suriname
Cautery/slave mark. Suriname, before 1877. Slaves were branded with a slave mark; it contained the initials of their master. The picture ...
The Great Fires of Amsterdam
It seems the creators of the Canon of Amsterdam had great difficulty in finding suitable historical events to make up the ...
Algemeen Handelsblad Newspaper
The general or common trading paper would be a fair translation of what we Dutchmen know as Het Algemeen Handelsblad. The ...
The Bijlmermeer (Bijlmer)
The Bijlmermeer, or The Bijlmer as it’s usually referred to, is a high-rise residential area to the South East of Amsterdam. ...