Most of the old houses in the city are now cut up and rented in parts. To reach the upper apartment you have to walk up a steep, long and cramped flight of stairs. Most of these are open for the public ( Read more... )

On 6 september 2009 at 11:15 PM a call came in at 112, the Dutch equivalent of 911. On the line was a woman who lived in one of the stately old houses in the Old South part of Amsterdam. She was hysterical ( Read more... )

There's a man who goes from shop to shop, never straying out of the center of Amsterdam. He's thin, frail and at first glance he looks like just another sweet old man ( Read more... )