by Julia Smile | Cultural Holidays, Family Travel, Travel, Winter
What better way to spend the 12 Days of Christmas than town-hopping around northern Italy? Julia Smile did just this and found Christmas markets, mountains, cosy farmhouses, castles, and even a two-horse open sleigh! A great destination for family travel all year...
by Amrita Suri | Health, Living Sustainably
We kicked off our Living Sustainably series with Single-use Plastics, and now we are moving on to fashion. That we have toxic wax and pesticides in our food and plastics in our water is fairly well known , but our clothing and household goods? Here are...
by Julia Smile | Legal, Life in Amsterdam, New to Amsterdam, Quick Start
You have bought ‘het fiets’ and you don’t mind cycling in the wind and the rain. Your family enjoys your ‘stamppot’, your toddler loves ‘peuterspeelzaal’, and you can order ‘een koffie verkeerd en appeltaart met...
by Amrita Suri | Life in Amsterdam, Living Sustainably, Money
The latest in our Living Sustainably series covers areas in our homes and in our lifestyles where we can make some earth and resource friendly adjustments. Throw the light switch on, and the gloom of short winter days and endless nights is gone. Extreme...
by Amrita Suri | Covid, Cultural Holidays, Life in Amsterdam, Spring, Travel
The happy and colourful Indian holiday called Holi is the perfect antidote to the gloom and gray of late winter. Amrita Suri is here to share both the story behind the holiday as well as where you can go to join in the celebration! Holi – The Festival of Colour...
by Lana Huf-Germain | Home Sweet Home, Legal, Life in Amsterdam, Money
You would think that for a city built on water, the first choice of transportation would be a boat. After all, there are 165 canals in Amsterdam covering a total distance of more than 50km! We cycle, drive cars, ride scooters, hail trams, and… oh yes, we...