Amsterdam/Rotterdam

[imitationleather]

Whatever you do don't go to Moco. It's a pile of absolute fucking bollocks. It takes like 20 minutes (at best) to look at everything and confirm it's all shite and costs stupid money.

Want to track down the people who run it and murder them.

[sevendaughters]

Bos en Lommer is in an earlier stage of gentrification but really the only scruffy part of 'dam I saw was when I stayed in a hotel in Sloterdijk. It is just a bougie place all over. Even the dormitory towns like Diemen and Duivendrecht have stupid rents.

[Goldentony]

smoke so much weed that the only body part you can feel is your teeth and then eat two bowls full of chorizo while talking about the 1997 Newcastle team instead of answering the questions people have asked you, fall over in the street outside Soundgarden bar while trying to buy more weed and then go back to Soundgarden and finish the pint

[beanheadmcginty]

De Pijp is lovely, when I was there in August I had what might have been the nicest ice cream I've ever had. I wonder if there's some gentrification going on there though, all the guide books refer to it as a working-class district and it didn't seem that way to me, more 'bohemian' middle class. Albert Cuypmarkt still great though.

Those guide books are about 50 years out of date. De Pijp isn't the slightest bit working class and hasn't been for a long time. It's like calling Notting Hill working class.