The gelato shops lining the main pedestrian thoroughfares of Florence are akin to the bordello windows of Amsterdam’s red light district – bawdy, curvaceous mountains of ruddy chocolates and flushed berry hues, decorated like rococo bell towers with flirty berries and winking pansies. It’s enough to give you a visual toothache. These heathen heaps dazzled […]
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5 Things to Love about Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport
With over 45 million people passing through its concourses in 2010, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is such a major hub that it’s actually self-classified as an “airport city.” But if that sounds like a crowded, oppressive super-plex right out of Blade Runner, think again. The Dutch have long been getting it right when it comes to […]