Amsterdam

Water

The city is mostly water and pretends otherwise. These are the places where you can get to it, swim in it, or sit next to it until it gets dark.

5 places in Amsterdam

Noord

A shipyard, a beach nobody asked for, and the sun going down over the IJ.

Nieuw-West

A lake the size of a district, in the part of the city nobody sends you to.

IJburg

An actual beach, with actual sand, inside the city limits.

Indische Buurt

A fifty metre outdoor pool at the edge of a park, open only in summer.

Oud-Zuid

A swimming pool from 1912 that has never been modernised, behind the Rijksmuseum.