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The Amsterdam houseboat family

In the centre of Amsterdam, you will find Michele’s Houseboat. A brand new houseboat moored at the Ruysdaelkade to enjoy your stay in amsterdam!

In the centre of Amsterdam, in the museum quarter, you will find Michele’s Houseboat. A brand new houseboat moored at the Ruysdaelkade, where you can experience Amsterdam in a unique way: living on the water. The houseboat is divided into three apartments, one large one where I live myself with my boyfriend Nils, and two smaller apartments where you can enjoy your holidays or business trip in Amst

erdam! Each of the apartments has their own private entrance, en-suite bathroom, and a large double bed that can be made up for either a couple or two singles. All guests have access to the large roof terrace where one can eat, drink, laugh, bbq or tan! You could book both of the apartments together or one apartment just let me know what you prefer!

15/06/2026

The sun is finally back in Amsterdam and it’s only getting warmer, heading for around 30°C by the weekend 😌

That means slow mornings on the deck, afternoons disappearing into a park, and staying out late enough to watch the canals turn gold.

We’ve got our week planned. How are you spending the sunshine? 🌞

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12/06/2026

Not in Amsterdam? You’re missing out. Summer’s about to start, and the canals already know it. 🌞 Come claim your spot on the water.

09/06/2026

✨ FRIENDS ✨

Our Houseboat Family Friends: the spots we return to again and again because they’ve become part of our daily rhythm on the canals. These are the places we trust and the ones we recommend to our friends and family without blinking.

This one comes with a goodbye: is closing.

Six years ago it started as a pop-up, and grew into the only cevicheria in Amsterdam, right on the corner from us in De Pijp. They’re closing the doors this summer, so you’ve got about two months left to go there and enjoy their amazing food!

If you’ve never been: a ceviche bar with South American roots, fish done properly, a warm room you sit down in for dinner and leave somewhere near closing time. If you have, you already know.

Save this post and show them to claim a glass of wine on the house with your dinner. Go once more while you can.

Some spots just end up feeling like yours. This was one of ours.

📍 · Van Ostadestraat 1, De Pijp
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08/06/2026

5 things to know before your trip to Amsterdam 🛶

1. Book Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh online, weeks ahead. Both are timed-entry and online only - there’s no queue to join at the door. Anne Frank tickets release a few weeks out and go fast, so set a reminder.

2. Drink the tap water. It’s clean, free, and some of the best in the world: skip the €3 bottles. Bring a refillable one and top it up anywhere.

3. Don’t forget to look up. The best of the city sits above eye level - carved gable stones, the dates on the facades, and the hooks they still use to hoist furniture through the windows (the stairs were never built for it).

4. Get a haring “vers van het mes” from a fish cart. That’s “fresh from the knife” - raw herring, chopped onion, a few euros, eaten standing on the street. The most local bite in town, and better than any sit-down version.

5. The blue GVB ferries behind Centraal are free. Walk out the back of the station, hop on, and cross the IJ to Noord for the best skyline in the city: no ticket, no fare.

Save this for your trip, send it to whoever you’re travelling with, and tell us which one you didn’t know yet!

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07/06/2026

Summer does not announce itself in Amsterdam. It just turns up one morning, a little warmer than yesterday, and the canal carries on like it has not noticed.

The boats sit lower. Someone is already out with their coffee. The water keeps that slow rhythm you only feel once you have stopped moving fast enough to miss it.

Canal life never asks for your attention. It just waits until you are ready to give it.

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06/06/2026

Seven things tourists do in Amsterdam that we’d never do. 🚲

We grew up on these canals, so here’s the local cheat sheet.

1. Go on a boat in the rain. We’ve got the boats and we wait for the sky to behave. The canals are made for golden hour, not grey drizzle.

2. Buy cheese at a tourist shop. Those wax-wrapped wheels in the centre are built for suitcases and priced to match. Go to the market (Albert Cuyp’s on our doorstep) and taste before you pay.

3. Walk on the bike lane. The red asphalt isn’t a footpath, it’s a bike highway. Step onto it and you’ll get a bell, or worse. We never do.

4. Call the whole country “Holland.” It’s the Netherlands. Holland is just two of the twelve provinces.

5. Order a coffee in a “coffeeshop.” That sells w**d, not flat whites. If it’s caffeine you’re after, you want a café. Easy mix-up, very different morning.

6. Drink at the Heineken Experience. It’s a branded tour, not a pub. We’d rather spend it on a proper local beer at an actual brewery.

7. Rent a car. Parking costs more than dinner and there’s nowhere to leave it anyway. This city runs on bikes, trams and free ferries: four wheels are not always so lucky.

Save this for the trip, send it to whoever you’re travelling with, and tell us which one are you guilty of?

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04/06/2026

We could write a whole paragraph about how good this city gets in summer. Or you could just watch. 🌅 Come see it from the water - link in bio.

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02/06/2026

Some mornings the city can definitely wait.

Coffee going slow. A book you didn’t mean to pick back up. Morning light filling the boat while De Pijp wakes up outside: and you, in no rush to join it.

Waking up on Michèle’s houseboat. Stay a while.

Book direct → link in bio.

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31/05/2026

Most people eat dinner at Café Restaurant Amsterdam without realising what used to be beneath their feet.

This hall pumped Amsterdam’s drinking water for nearly a century. Underground reservoirs held tens of millions of litres of dune water, forced into the city through pipes in the cellar, right up until 1996.

Now it’s a restaurant. The old engine room is the dining hall, the ceilings run church-high, and some of the lamps once lit the Olympic Stadium.

Then you step outside and the terrace vanishes into the reeds on the water. Ten minutes from the centre, and a world away from it.

Save this for your trip. Tag who you’d bring.

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27/05/2026

Amsterdam canal life is rarely loud.

It’s friends sitting by the water with no real plan. Bikes leaning against old brick walls. Someone crossing a bridge, someone else floating past, sunlight catching the water and the windows.

Nothing dramatic. No big itinerary. Just the city moving slowly at the edge of the water - boats, shadows, bridges, and those small everyday moments that somehow feel like a film still.

That’s the magic of Amsterdam. It makes ordinary life look quietly iconic.

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Ruysdaelkade 216
Amsterdam
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