Janet and Anton Hein

We’re a few into April, but it’s still bitterly cold in Amsterdam — the tail end (hopefully) of an unusual cold spell that started early in March.

It’s been a bitterly cold March in Amsterdam this year — with more days of frost than we had in January. What a contrast with last year, when birds, …

The city of Amsterdam includes thousands of 16th, 17th and 18th century buildings, more than 7500 of which are considered National Heritage Sites. Shown above are six of those …

I can think of no better description of true love than the one in the Bible, in a letter from the apostle Paul to the Church at Corinth:

The sign on this house in the center of Amsterdam says, “Read the Bible, The Book for You.” A few years ago Janet and I were invited to have …

The Prinsengracht is one of Amsterdam’s most beautiful canals. This (slightly HDR) photo show different types of houseboats, including converted barges. The one on the right-hand side in the …

The other day we had dinner with a couple of friends. Afterward the four of use walked to Café Papeneiland for a nightcap. In business since 1642, this very …

The Brouwersgracht is regularly voted to be Amsterdam's most beautiful street

Pastry shop Arnold Cornelis, in Amsterdam’s Jordaan district, is housed in a shop that dates back to the 18th century. You’ll find many of these type of storefronts in …

I love days that start like this. For some reason a sunrise like this always reminds me that God says his compassions are new every morning:

Whenever the weather permits thousands of Amsterdammers take to the canals, sailing in anything from sloops to yachts, and from army vessels to wooden shoes.

Sailing across the IJ river behind Amsterdam’s Central Station we saw the Arctic Sunrise, one of several Greenpeace vessels stationed here. Update, September, 2013: In an act of piracy, …