Amsterdam Odyssey

07/02/2025

We finally found the time to update our website and add this tour - one of our longtime favorites! This unique experience combines a walking tour with a Rijksmuseum visit, bringing history and art together in the best way. A truly special tour, made even better with the amazing guidance of Paola or Huibert!

Discover Amsterdam’s history and art combined: walk the city’s historic streets, then see its stories come to life in the Rijksmuseum.

11/06/2024

It's already so rewarding to meet and guide people, sharing stories both ways. And then it's extra rewarding to hear how much they appreciated our time together..!

08/01/2024

Winter in Amsterdam: still nice to visit but less nice to spend 3 or more hours outdoors on a walking tour. We're happy to share this perfect combination tour with you. First we spend about 2 hours out on the streets where the Dutch East India Company was founded, capitalism was invented, and Rembrandt walked around and captured all these Golden Age developments on canvas.

Then we enter the Rijksmuseum for another 2 hours and connect the stories from the streets to some of the most impressive art works of those times.

You can contact us at [email protected] to plan this (or another) tour!

22/11/2023

Autumn and winter: not the best time of the year to spend 3 hours or so outside on a walking tour. We have some great alternatives, combining walking out on the streets with visiting a building which is related to the stories of the street plus comfortably warm :)

Like the Royal Palace, once built as the city hall of 17th century flourishing Amsterdam. The huge map on the marble central floor dates from those days, depicting the world as it was known by then.

22/11/2023

November has almost come to an end and low season in tours has arrived. Making up the balance, we are looking back to such an amazing year!! Many special meetings and connections, a great variety of tours and topics and so many in depth talks which we value so much.
If you have ever gone on a tour with us: it's never too late for a ***** review 😉 on tripadvisor or (and) google 🤩

We are looking forward to seeing and guiding you (again) in Amsterdam!
Eva, Hanneke, Huibert, Paola, Vera, Nick and Ewald

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14/12/2022

An often returning topic during our walking tours, is water management. Here's a nice example: a house boat had to be removed for shore line renovations and didn't fit underneath a bridge. So the water level was lowered by 7 cm, house boat moved, and water level restored.

13/11/2022

It seems like it's compliments day! In the inbox today:
"I do want you to show us around. My friend Victoria said you were the best part of her Amsterdam trip."
and
"This is the first time I go to museums and actually enjoy it! Usually I suffer."
😃🥰

09/11/2022

Our website has been updated - and finally we can officially announce our Countryside and flowers tour!
During the two years of lockdowns, Eva has spent most of her time in the middle of the Bulb and flower region. Though of course still and above all a true Amsterdammer, the fields around the Keukenhof flower garden have become her second home. So now we feel like we can offer you a tour through the region with a guide who knows what she's talking about ;)

Have a look on the tour page on our website and we're happy to take you along in spring!!
https://amsterdamodyssey.com/private-tours/amsterdam-countryside-flowers/

04/09/2020

Amsterdam architecture throughout the centuries. 17th century warehouses, late 20nd century functionalism and 21st century futurism all in one frame.

31/07/2020

Travel a century back in time with this colored footage of the Jordaan neighborhood! Even in our childhood (1980's) this was still a poor area. Eva's uncle needed her inflatable kids' canoe and swimming pool to collect the water from all the leakages in his place. From the 1990's, the Jordaan started to gentrify 'avant la lettre'. And nowadays nothing of this most picturesque neighborhood reminds of the poor, dirty, smelly past centuries..!

Prachtige ingekleurde beelden van de (nogal verpauperde) Amsterdamse Joodse wijk "De Jordaan" in 1925. De oorspronkelijke film is beweging-gestabiliseerd, in...

30/07/2020

It's Pride week again! Last week of July/ first week of August it's all about love: be who you are and love whom you love. Still sad that it's necessary to put special attention to that, but proud of the way Amsterdam looks at this basic human right, coloring the city - including the churches - with rainbow flags!

10/07/2020

It's tour time again! Picking up guests of The Dylan Amsterdam for a nice stroll through the city.

30/06/2020

Greetings from Amsterdam! Still quite quiet, but life is getting back on track. Museums, restaurants et cetera have opened their doors again, people are enjoying terrace time again and the first tourists have been spotted again..!

27/06/2020

It's not only canals and rivers around Amsterdam - just a few km westwards you can enjoy the sea and dunes for beautiful walks and sunsets! We took our first dive of the season :)

25/06/2020

Greetings from Amsterdam! A few years ago, a family we were guiding mentioned how they had expected to find one stretch of picturesque canal houses somewhere - as one iconic spot. How impressed they were when they realized there was so much beauty all around them!

21/06/2020

A beautiful bike ride along the rivier Amstel takes you to the picturesque neighboring village Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. We'll be happy to take you along again!

17/06/2020

Strolling through Amsterdam stays one of our favorite things to do. So many picturesque places, good vibes and interesting stories! Like here on the edge of the Jordaan neighborhood and the 17th century city wall. We're looking forward to taking you on a walking tour again!

15/06/2020

Summer vibes in Amsterdam!