Koningsdag this year, Holland’s most celebrated birthday in times of quarantine By PIERRE DU PASQUIER | April 29, 2020 Cover photo Kira Guehring / The Amsterdammer King’s Day was celebrated in a new way in 2020. Photo taken in Amsterdam on April 27, 2019. Koningsdag (translated to King’s Day) is a popular Dutch tradition filled with joyous parades in orange costumes, listening to live music, DJs, parties and strolls through flea markets…
Culture Trip Thinking about travelling to Vietnam? By LINH NGUYEN | April 26, 2020 Cover photo by Josh Stewart on Unsplash If you were to ask me where home is, my answer is clear: Vietnam. Born and raised there, Vietnam defined my childhood and teenage years. It was 18 full years of curiosity and excitement that have truly defined the person I am today. As far as I could remember, those…
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,…
