Culture Trip Hot like the Saharan Desert, Sweet as the Mediterranean Sea By CYRINE ETTRIKI | April 26, 2020 Cover photo by @tunisianvintage on Instagram Studying in Amsterdam as an international student, people often ask me about my country of origin, to which I reply “I’m from Tunisia”. This usually provokes an array of different responses: some people have never heard of Tunisia, others confuse the country with its capital Tunis, and…
Culture Trip A Very Broad Travel guide for Italy By CARA RAEKER | April 26, 2020 Cover photo by Cara Raeker / The Amsterdammer. A picture taken at Italy’s West coast of the famous ‘Cinque Terre’, a coastal strip dotted with five small villages as beautiful as this one. In 2018, I spent six months travelling through the northern-central regions of Bella Italia working on organic farms, mostly out in the…
Culture Trip Edition A Love Letter to Saigon By QUYNH (STEPHANIE) BUI | April 25th, 2020 Photo by Peter Nguyen on Unsplash Have you ever been to a city that you do not necessarily miss, but its name nevertheless evokes emotions in you? That’s how I feel about Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), my hometown and an indispensable part of my identity. The metropolitan city has witnessed many cultural and historical turns,…
Culture Trip The Best ‘Hidden Gems’ in Gothenburg By SEBASTIAN HEGMAR | April 25, 2020 Cover photo by Ebad & Partners Gothenburg has quite the impressive resume despite Stockholm’s status as Sweden’s capital city. Between 2016 and 2019, the GDS-Index ranked it as the greenest city on Earth in regards to sustainability and closeness to forests and parks. In 2017, Gothenburg was named “the most sociable city in the world” by Hostelworld,…
Culture trip An Insight into Valencia: the city of sunlight, oranges and fiesta. Mucha fiesta. By LUCIA MASIP | April 25, 2020 Cover photo by @travelnow_or_crylater on Unsplash Born and raised in Valencia, I was (as many locals are to their hometown) unaware of the uniqueness of the city where I came from. After moving from Valencia to Amsterdam about two years ago, I got to experience the city from an almost…
Nature Strikes Back By ANNA LEA JAKOBS | April 24, 2020 Illustration by Anna Lea Jakobs / The Amsterdammer Wild deer walk through the concrete jungle of New York. The Venetian canals have welcomed dolphins again. A puma strides, looking for something to feed on in the conventional residential areas of Santiago, Chile, while donkeys pay a visit to the ICICI Bank in Prayagraj, North India. Animals are defying the formal lines of…
