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    Hidden CITY GEMS

    Mar 05, 2020 6 minutes
    WORDS: MIRANDA McMINN, SHARON SWEENEY, SARAH COOPER-WHITE.

    AMSTERDAM

    Follow the locals to discover this super-chilled, stylish city.

    Amsterdam is a city that venerates art, architecture and design. The atmosphere is extremely relaxed and pleasant, the culture mind-blowing, and its buildings and canals beautiful enough to rival Venice.

    Plus, there’s less pollution than in UK cities – it’s all about bikes and trams in Amsterdam. There are 881,000 bikes for 811,185 residents, and 58% of them cycle daily – be careful when crossing the road!

    A good way to find your bearings is with a canal trip. There are scores on offer, such as ‘The Tourist’, a gem of a 1920s ‘salon boat’ owned by the Pulitzer Amsterdam luxury hotel. This wooden beauty boasts a bar, floral arrangements worthy of a Dutch flower painting, red leather banquettes and, best of all (when I went), Captain Tony, who leads a 75-minute round trip of the city’s waterways pointing out sites of interest (the houses of Rembrandt and Anne Frank,

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