Travel is gathering moments, living dreams and creating memories. Float away along idyllic canals. Widen your horizons visiting rough warehouses and famous museums. And look behind exquisitely beautiful façades to discover the stories of enterprising young spirits. Travel journalist and photographer Harriet Dohmeyer presents her 27 favourite places and gives you special insights into a small metropolis that radiates openness, variety and a cosy atmosphere. Enjoy beautiful Amsterdam!
Hello Amsterdam is a personal exploration of the city in text and photography. It brings together curated recommendations, everyday observations and encounters with places that shape Amsterdam beyond its well known landmarks.
Instead of a checklist approach, the book invites readers to explore the city at their own pace. Cafés, cultural spaces, neighbourhoods and urban moments form a portrait of Amsterdam as a place of movement, diversity and creative energy.
With its high quality pictures Hello Amsterdam is not only a guide but a book to browse, return to and keep. Sustainably produced and thoughtfully designed, it offers inspiration for travellers who prefer their own paths over the tourist flow.
Across 128 pages of the Hello series, this book presents Amsterdam as a city full of contrasts, details and quiet surprises. Through conversations with coffee enthusiasts, young restaurateurs and independent shop owners, the book opens up perspectives that go beyond well known narratives.
Along the way, secret recipes are shared, alternative canal routes explored and unexpected places discovered. The journey leads through rough former warehouses as well as renowned museums, capturing Amsterdam in motion and at rest.
Form and content are closely intertwined. Generously sized photographs and in depth, carefully researched texts come together in a fresh, contemporary layout, turning Hello Amsterdam into a book that invites both attentive reading and leisurely browsing.
Dohmeyer Harriet
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