There’s a connection here – bear with me. Readers who’ve been following me for a while will know that there are various characters in my blog posts (otherwise known as...
As regular readers will know, I have an entire recommendations section for people wanting to know the best restaurants (IMHO) in a particular neighbourhood, or for a specific type of...
Do any of you watch Saturday Kitchen on the BBC? You know the bit where they have the omelette challenge, which seems to be more of a contest to see...
Nearly two years ago now, the opening of Café de Walvis was a turning point in the life of the Spaarndammerstraat. The Spaarndammerbuurt has been my neighbourhood for seven years...
Have any of you heard about this 100 Happy Days project? I hadn’t, until Scary French Lady told me about it over dinner last week – and there was me...
A few days ago, I celebrated my eighth anniversary in Amsterdam – yep, eight whole years. That’s far longer than I’ve lived anywhere except the village I grew up in,...
IQ Creative – the people behind Nomads, Mazzo, Envy (plus other words made up of the same letters in different orders) et al – have recently turned Witteveen into Julius...
It’s never really a good sign when two sets of customers walk in to a restaurant, sit down, look at the menu, then promptly turn around and walk out again....
“Why?” you’re wondering; “has she completely lost her mind?” Well, that last question’s debatable. But as for the why: last week I found myself performing every night in the Zaantheater’s...