Written by Sue Dobson
With more canals than Venice, Amsterdam is a wonderful city to explore on foot. Along the tree-lined streets that edge the canals are tall, slim and utterly charming 17th-century gabled houses. When they were built, their owners were taxed on the building’s width. But steep and winding interior stairways made it pretty difficult to get the furniture in, so they solved the problem by winching it up from the outside....
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