A scenic winter cruise through Amsterdam's canals.

There's something exotic about European Christmas markets to an American traveler, used to an oversaturated winter holiday season that starts the minute Halloween ends. While certain news stations will bemoan a "war" on Christmas, the holiday is still an all encompassing event in the beginnings of winter. And yet, despite its dominance, Christmas in the US simply cannot measure up to the Northern European experience, with its quaint and charming Christmas markets that sprinkl

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Sometimes we visit cities for the architecture, sometimes for the food. Occasionally for the ambiance, and maybe even all of the above....

Amsterdam, and indeed all of the Netherlands, is defined by its relationship to water. Chock full of canals, Amsterdam is in many ways a...

Some places feel like they belong in a fairy tale. Giethoorn, located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, is one such location, where...