Open-air street markets are my 'go to' for just about anything homemade, homegrown or handmade. So when I come across such places in different countries, I am overjoyed so much so that I dedicate sometimes a whole day walking up and down every aisle making sure not to miss a thing.

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Call it Dutch, call it environmentally friendly, call it what you like but bicycles are everywhere in Amsterdam. Hundreds of them line the streets, move faster than their counterparts, automobiles, and crowd the entrance of many eateries and shops throughout the city.

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Museums devoted to history, art and culture are a dime a dozen. Rarer are the ones dedicated to the truly strange. How strange are we talking? Human heads, gross stuff that grows inside you and macabre mechanisms. You won’t find that at MoMA.This list by no means covers all the...

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When many young travelers think of Amsterdam, they think of canals, clubs and cannabis. Even the Amsterdam museums can turn the humdrum hip. On the first Saturday of November Amsterdam transforms its museums into the hottest party in the city at the annual Museumnacht event.

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"We have to go cycling, it's very Dutch." It seemed like everything we did that day was "very Dutch". Luckily, that was what I wanted, given that we were in the Netherlands, hoping to experience as much Dutch culture as possible.

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Wham, bam and thank you ma’am! Amsterdam can pick you up, throw you around like a rag doll and spit you out like yesterday’s old news in a heartbeat, never mind twenty four hours....

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