In May 2006 I returned to the Netherlands to update the Dutch chapters I’d previously written for the Europe On A Shoestring and Western Europe guidebooks. This time, I was also co-author of the Netherlands country guide with Neal Bedford: I wrote the Amsterdam, Zuid Holland & Zeeland, Overijssel & Gelderland, and Utrecht chapters. [...]

In 2004 I completed my first freelance writing job for Lonely Planet: travelling around the Netherlands, researching, updating and rewriting the Dutch chapters for the Western Europe and Europe On A Shoestring guidebooks. These were published in February and March 2005 respectively. I’m only including excerpts from the introductory material I wrote, rather than [...]

interview by Simon Sellars

Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 11 May 2004.

Recently I was in Amsterdam on a writing assignment. I hadn’t been there for years and I had the usual backpacker’s memory of the place: hash, beer, Red Light District, canals…all the old cliches. This time around, however, I gained a deeper understanding of this [...]