Amsterdam

North Holland

Canals, bikes and old masters

Art

Architecture

About Amsterdam

Amsterdam is laid out like a logical argument-concentric canals, gabled merchant houses, bridges doubled in still brown water.

Bicycles rule everything, ringing past flower stalls and museums stuffed with Rembrandts and Vermeers. The Golden Age wealth that built these houses came off ships and spice, and the tolerance that made the city rich still runs underneath it.

Beyond the stag parties and the red-lit lanes there's a gentle, domestic city of houseboats and tiny brown cafés.

Eat a herring standing up at a cart, a stroopwafel pressed warm, and a beer in a bar that hasn't been redecorated in a century.

Get to Amsterdam

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Buses from Amsterdam

Day trips from Amsterdam

Half day
Zaanse Schans
~30 min and a short walk
A riverside open-air village of working windmills, green wooden houses and cheese barns — the Netherlands at its most postcard. Go early, before the tour buses arrive.
Half day
Keukenhof
~40 min
Seven million bulbs in bloom — the world's most famous spring garden, surrounded by the striped tulip fields of the Bollenstreek. Open only from late March to mid-May.
Half day
Kasteel de Haar
~45 min , ~1 h
The largest castle in the Netherlands: a neo-gothic fairy tale of moats, turrets and formal gardens, rebuilt by the architect of the Rijksmuseum for a Rothschild baroness.