AMSTERDAM - A GUIDE

I have to be honest Amsterdam has never been on top of the list of places I wanted to visit in Europe. In my eyes the city's main pull was easily reduced down to two things - the legalised weed and cafes it is smoked in and the prostitutes standing in their windows for the world to lurk at in the red light district, a perception only further reinforced by the hordes of British stag and hen do groups regularly invading Amsterdam for the weekend to get pissed and high, making the most of precisely those two things. I am very happy to report however that I got to discover a VERY different Amsterdam to the one I had anticipated and had thus far avoided when I spent a long...