I happened to be in Amsterdam on Easter Monday, which is a public holiday devoted to shopping. Throughout the country, DIY-stores are open as are all branches of a certain blue-and-yellow Swedish flat-pack furniture retailer. In Amsterdam however, all shops open up and the city centre gets raided by masses of people using their day-off [...]

This friendly locality has been equipped by a kitschy amount of ‘coffee accessories’, such as the rusty coffee mills on every table and coffee sacks along the ceiling. The espresso is somewhat strong (which is good!), but the milk tasted flat, even though it, by the looks of it, had been steamed properly. The watery [...]