Inside Amsterdam

This fullcolour edition of Inside Amsterdam brings deep insight into the life of the city as seen through its legendary cafes and bars. Stories are told covering the top 60 cafes over the last 400 years. Discover the warm and welcoming Amsterdam community and read about a coffin makers with an escape tunnel for Catholics, David Bowie losing a card game to a magician, sailors paying for their keep with monkeys, a cafe owner kissing a Prime Minister, sixty five year old cobwebs, grown men crying in the footsteps of their great-grand fathers, a cafe owner fearlessly tearing through the city on her motorbike. Inside Amsterdam gets under the skin of this world renowned city. The book takes you to where Amsterdammers eat, drink and talk and have welcomed visitors for hundreds of years. All profit from this book will be donated to the charity Operation Smile, an organisation providing reconstructive surgery for children across the world who were born with facial deformities.