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Hi. I'm an English speaker who first came to Amsterdam for a few weeks, kept coming back, and eventually stopped counting. These days I spend most of my year here, on a second-hand bike, in a small flat with very steep stairs.

Gable Notes started as a text file on my phone where I kept the things I wanted to remember: a quiet street, a good market stall, the best time to take the ferry. Friends kept asking for the list, so I tidied some of it up and put it here.

A few honest disclaimers. I'm not a local expert, a historian or a food critic. I don't list prices or opening times, because they change and I'd only get them wrong. Everything here is personal, a bit selective and written slowly. If something has changed since I wrote it, that's simply the city doing what cities do.

I add a new note whenever something is worth writing down, which is less often than I'd like.

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