• The Poolbar - Poolbar Amsterdam – A Genuine Dutch Borrel Experience
  Start your journey at a charming local café with a classic borrel: enjoy a sip of local draft beer, a taste of jenever (Dutch juniper spirit), and freshly prepared bitterballen.

Meet your guide, engage in the vintage Dutch game sjoelen, and learn your first Dutch word: gezellig.

Challenge: Say “echt gezellig” and truly mean it.

• Herring Stall Jonk - Fishmonger Visit – Experience Herring Like a Local

Visit a family-owned fish shop and savor Hollandse Nieuwe, the raw herring that powered Dutch trade.

Learn the correct technique and the intriguing history behind it.

Challenge: Eat it with onions, head tilted back like a local.

• Cheese & More Flower Market - Henri Willig Cheese – The Ultimate Gouda Challenge
  Discover the process of Dutch cheese-making—from cow to cellar.

Blind-taste 10 different cheeses (young, aged, spicy, and more) and try to identify each one.

Challenge: Pronounce “Gouda” like a native and ace the quiz.

• Flower Market - Floating Flower Market – Tulips, Trade & Tourist Myths
  Wander through the world’s only floating flower market and learn how tulips once sparked the world’s first financial bubble.

Understand why the Dutch continue to celebrate flowers—not just for their beauty, but as a symbol of global trade, wealth, and identity.

Your guide will also debunk a few myths (hint: real locals don’t buy tulip bulbs here).

Challenge: Guess the true origin of tulips…

• Peppernuts Amsterdam - Canal House Basement – Sinterklaas & Spiced Cookies
  In a warm, cinnamon-scented basement, explore the Dutch legend of Sinterklaas—complete with poems, songs, and cookie-throwing.

Learn how he differs from Santa and why he still arrives by steamboat.

Challenge: Catch a flying pepernoot (and taste three flavors).

• Duke Of Tokyo - Amsterdam’s Gay District – Pride, Progress & the Rainbow Trail
  Stroll through the historic core of Amsterdam’s LGBTQ+ scene—where quiet progress led to a global milestone: legal same-sex marriage in 2001.

Hear how the Dutch blend activism with pragmatism, and how this neighborhood became a symbol of inclusion.

Challenge: Spot a very attractive artwork…

• Dampkring Coffeeshop - Outside Dampkring – Brad Pitt, Cannabis & Dutch Tolerance
  Outside the renowned Dampkring coffeeshop—where Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Matt Damon once visited—you’ll explore gedogen, the Dutch policy of tolerating what technically isn’t legal.

No, we don’t enter or use cannabis—but this stop reveals how the Dutch handle contradictions with calm and common sense.

Challenge: Guess what’s actually legal (spoiler: not the weed).

• Canals of Amsterdam - UNESCO Canals – A Quiz with a View
  Pause along Amsterdam’s iconic 17th-century canals—now a UNESCO World Heritage site—and discover how water shaped the city’s wealth, identity, and chaos.

Your guide will test you with playful questions: How many bikes fall in? How many bridges? How many drunk swimmers?

Challenge: Get the answers right, win a Dutch cookie. Bragging rights included.

• Happy Bookieman - Hidden Hippie House – The Amsterdam Time Forgot
  Slip into a tiny alley most tourists miss and find the last real hippie house of Amsterdam—still inhabited, still wild, still wonderfully weird.

Covered in plants, murals, and peace signs, it’s a living relic of Amsterdam’s squatters’ movement and free-spirited past.

Challenge: Spot the secret message hidden in the window or wall.

• Heertje Friet - Heertje Friet – Fries, Mayonnaise & Dutch Pride
  Taste the crunchiest, golden fries in Amsterdam at a boutique fry shop that takes its potatoes seriously. You’ll learn why fries are a Dutch obsession—and why they unapologetically drown them in mayo. (Yes, just like in Pulp Fiction.)

Sample funky sauces and discover which topping pairs best with your inner Dutch self.

Challenge: Choose your favorite and go all-in—no ketchup allowed.

• Hans Egstorf - Stroopwafel Finale – A 200-Year-Old Treat
  End your adventure on a sweet note at Amsterdam’s oldest bakery. Watch how traditional stroopwafels—thin waffle cookies filled with warm syrup—are made the old-fashioned way.

Learn the proper way to eat them (hint: it involves your coffee cup), and taste one fresh off the iron.

Challenge: Get it warm and gooey without cracking it.

• 10 flavors cheese tasting
• 7 interactive challenges blending food, history, and local traditions
• Personal attention small group experience (max 15 guests)
• Tastings including herring, cheese, fries, pepernoten, tompouce, stroopwafel & more
• Welcome draft beer and local spirit Jenever
• Our insider food tips to experience Amsterdam like a local
• Expert local guide with deep knowledge of Dutch culture & history

• Want to leave a tip? Gratuities are much appreciated by Cash, Venmo or PayPal!
• Note: Canal boat tour not included. Your guide can recommend one after the tour.

Could you embrace Dutch culture in just 7 challenges? Savor herring like a native, raise a glass of jenever hands-free, unravel the secrets of canal houses, navigate a Dutch birthday, and truly understand the essence of gezellig. This is not a mundane history tour or a heavy food binge — it’s a lively, narrative-rich cultural journey led by a local expert who brings Amsterdam to life with humor, tastings, and the unique Dutch traits that guidebooks overlook.

Participants will depart with a stronger connection to the city, a satisfied appetite, and a collection of unbelievable stories to share with friends.

• We walk 1.2 mile or 2km: Not recommended for servere mobility issues

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.