I love a city that can fit neatly into a weekend. They say Amsterdam is one of the most livable cities on earth but for me, the thrill of dodging all those beautiful people with their bikes piled with perfect blond children wears thin after a couple of days. As does cheese. And more cheese. [...]

I love a museum-in-a-home when it feels as if the original occupants have just left. In the case of The Van Loon house in the centre of Amsterdam, in fact, they haven’t. The descendants of the family still occupy the traditional back house behind the grand stone edifice. In 1602 Willem van Loon co-founded [...]