Summering In: Amsterdam
A long weekend in the lowlands
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What. A. Weekend.
Four days in AMS for the wedding of my 2015 Craigslist roommate turned best friend (hi, P) — and we truly couldn’t have asked for a better celebration or a better excuse to live our best lowland lives. Even with such a short trip, we crammed in an impressive amount. Let’s get into it.
Wednesday
Afternoon & Evening
A near-effortless travel day: a row to myself, homemade dinner, two glasses of wine, and my latest romantasy novel — the recipe for a perfect overnight flight.
Thursday
Morning
Checked into Amsterdam Soho House (a true 10/10 stay — hotel recap coming). Started the day with a quick sauna session, shower, and a change into a daytime fit, then headed to the club lounge for coffee and breakfast. Pro tip: I sent ChatGPT my travel itinerary and asked how to beat jet lag — he told me to stay up and power through, so I withheld the nap.
Afternoon
By early afternoon, my friends had arrived — also staying at Soho — so we met in the lounge over coffee, tea, ginger shots… all the bevvies. We wandered through De 9 Straatjes (The Nine Streets) and stopped for drinks (naturally).
Evening
The bride kicked things off with dinner and drinks on a boat through the famous canals. Fifteen bottles of rosé later, we headed to another bar for more wine and limoncello shots, then to a club called Chin Chin… ending the night with pizza back at the hotel.
Friday
Morning
Cue hangovers.
Afternoon
Brunch at Oeuf (so cute), shopping in De Pijp (stop at Penny Lane vintage), coffee at Café Baskèts, a quick cultural moment at the Rijksmuseum, and then some damage on P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam’s designer shopping street.
Evening
Dinner at Boon & de Koot — amazing food and wine, especially the fried sardines. Our lingering hangovers and jet lag called for an early night after dinner.
Saturday
Morning
The big dayyy. Coffee and breakfast at Soho before getting ready. I also had some work to catch up on, so was able to squeeze that in the morning also.
Afternoon & Evening
The wedding started at 2pm, so we got ready and headed to the stunninggg venue for the ceremony & reception. It was so much fun and so gorgeous. I’m honestly still recovering.
Amsterdam, you were a dream. Until next time.
x Alex
Shedding a little tear reading this.. 🥺 realizing the amazing weekend having you all in the lowlands has flown by 🥹❤️!!!! The best time i could have ever dreamed off and so thankful you were here to celebrate with us!!! 🫶🏼❤️ Babecave/Traphouse reunited!!! 💯 we need more of this!