Travel tips: Christmas lights in Amsterdam

Amsterdam without tourists? That was 2020.  Hard to imagine and even further without any hospitality industry being open. 2021 fairly similar, all hospitality closed.  No Christmas markets, ice-skating rink, hot gluwein, crowd buzz or street artists. Yet despite missing all that, a city walk on a dry night to view the Christmas nights is a treat. Slightly surreal without crowds people but beautifully peaceful in the quite and pretty lights. 

 

                                              Famous white bicycle in the Museum quarter

 

Rijks museum in the background and canal leading up to it

                                                            Rembrandt square cafe

                                               Small shopping streets as you cross the canals

                                            Scheltema Book store on the Dam square

 

Centre shopping street

                                                                2019 in busier shopping times