ABOUT ME

As an avid reader and writer, I am perpetually fascinated by stories. Even today, storytelling remains one of the most important ancient crafts in society, despite dating back centuries and centuries, and probably intercepts with daily life more than people realise. “Travel,” for example, has forever been a prominent and reoccurring theme explored within stories. To adventure to a far off land is the ultimate journey of both self-discovery and extending yourself beyond your comfort zone– two concepts which shall serve as a primary launching pad for my discussion of travel.

Travel, whether experienced solo or with others, offers ample opportunity for self-growth and a broader overarching cultural education. This experience of personal growth and discovery is one I spend a lot of time considering, both in reference to myself and those around me, even of fictional origin (like my characters) and as a result, has since become a reoccurring narrative backbone to a great amount of my writing projects.

These ideas will feature concurrently throughout my exploration of travel. With a dominant focus on the highlights of the extraordinary city of Amsterdam, this blog is for anybody interested in insightful and adventurous stories about the Dutch capital. Through providing a keen focus to the unique architecture and standalone structural layout of the city, I hope to provoke in readers a fresh outlook on the features of Amsterdam which truly make it different from any other European capital across the continents.

Additionally, this blog will explore the Dutch cuisine of Amsterdam and how this is received by tourists, the most widely-recognised attractions of Amsterdam to visitors (and in turn, what locals classify as the city’s strengths, perhaps in contrast to travellers) and finally, what symbols contribute to the capital’s broader national identity and how these have been interpreted by the rest of the world.

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