Hi everyone,

My wife and I travelled from Belgium to Amsterdam last Tuesday, October 20, and unfortunately our car was broken into shortly after we arrived, near Keizersgracht 274.

The thieves took a travel bag containing a designer handbag, a pair of designer shoes and a laptop, as well as a separate laptop bag containing a second laptop.

We realise the chances of recovering our belongings may be slim, but we’d really appreciate some local advice. Which second-hand websites, shops, markets or local groups would you suggest keeping an eye on?

Are there also any places or services worth checking in case the bags or other belongings were discarded nearby?

If anyone witnessed anything or has been through something similar in Amsterdam, we’d be grateful for any useful information or advice.

Thanks so much for your help!

P.S. We’d also like to mention how extraordinarily kind, compassionate and generous with their time the police officers were when taking our statement. Their support meant a lot to us during a very upsetting experience.

Hi everyone, hope ya’ll having a great week!

I’m kinda new in the city, I’m now finally settling down and would love to meet new people and play some gigs with them.

I’m a guitar player and looking for nice bars for jam sessions, I can play pretty much anything but looking mostly for rock/blues/jazz sessions.

Does anyone have good recommendations? Also would love some guidance on how this stuff normally works, never participated in a jam session.

Thanks in advance!

Hi! I'm a theatre student at the Toneelacademie Maastricht and I'm creating my own play this year. It revolves around street harassment, power dynamics, watching and being watched. I'm looking for performers who feel a personal connection to this theme, specifically women and LGBTQIA+. The auditions are next week, if you're interested send me a message!

Hi everyone!

I recently found this oil painting in my apartment in Austria. It appears to depict an old canal in Amsterdam, possibly the Oudezijds Kolk or Oudezijds Voorburgwal, looking towards the Sint-Nicolaaskerk.

The painting is an actual oil painting on canvas, with visible brushstrokes. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a signature, date, or any other identifying information on the front or back.

There may be some initials or a signature hidden in the details of one of the boats, but I'm not sure.

Does anyone recognize the location or happen to know which artist might have painted it?

Any information about the artist, approximate age, or origin of the painting would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

I'm helping a friend of mine who's based in Amsterdam find photographers interested in fine-art nude photography.

She's an experienced nude pose model with previous experience working with local photographers, and she's interested in connecting with artists whose work focuses on the artistic and creative side of nude photography.

If you're a photographer based in Amsterdam or nearby and this sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to reach out.

Photographers working with fine-art, artistic nude, or editorial-style photography are especially welcome to reach out. Portfolio links would be appreciated too!

Thanks! :)

Hey all,

I am currently looking for models for FREE haircuts who are willing to participate to a make over!

(WOMENS ONLY)

I am a professional hairdresser living and working in Amsterdam and I would like to be more creative with my ideas and work and also for my social media!

Below you can find some examples pictures from the haircuts that I am looking for!

So, if you are interested in for a transformations or even a FREE haircuts that match with the pictures below please feel free to contact me for more information! Keep on eye also on my instagram page for more content! IG: neza_hair_

PS: Please do not contact me if you are not willing to cut your hair and your desire is to just TRIMM YOUR ENDS!

Love and peace see you at the salon!

One of my very first photos in Amsterdam, taken back in 2019.

Hello guys,

who is up to meet up in Amsterdam to get together to practice speaking, look into grammar together in a supportive pace, bringing our sources perhaps, when we could talk things over have a good supportive chat about Dutch language and everyday realistic useful conversations on the weekends and to interact with each other...?

I have a lot of books as sources I can bring, I am A2 by the way, but I thought it would be a great kickstart.

A friend of my failed the driving exam first time after more than 40hrs.

She’s looking for a different instructor that can help with the second time.

Do you have recommendations of instructors for English lessons?

She tried 3 instructors at the current school with different levels of success.

Some of them don’t explain properly, some only work during the week or only weekends, etc.

Looking for some personal recommendations

🔎 Looking for a video – TCS Amsterdam Marathon, Sunday 18 Oct 2026

Around race clock 4:22–4:27 (≈13:22–13:27), inside the Olympic Stadium, ~200 m before the finish: I collapsed on the track and stayed down for a while before people helped me up and across the line. It is a very important moment for me and I would love to have a video of this whole moment (it is not in the photos / video pack I bought)

Bib 11114 – white T-shirt, black shorts.

If you were in the stands and filmed it (even in the background), please message me! 🙏

🇳🇱 Iemand gefilmd in het Olympisch Stadion rond 13:25? Laat het me weten!

#amsterdammarathon #tcsamsterdammarathon #olympischstadion

I know this might be a long shot but i saw this painter painting the view from the Ijplein ferry stop. I was a bit in a rush and didn’t want to distract him so I didn’t talk to him but now thinking I should’ve asked for his contacts. Does anyone maybe know him? Would love to check out if he has more paintings of Amsterdam:)

A while ago in Paris I came across the Turgot map (1739), the huge bird’s-eye plan where every street, courtyard and building is drawn individually. I couldn’t stop looking at it, and it made me want to try the same thing for modern cities, starting with Berlin, where I’ve lived for over five years. And I've added Amsterdam just now.

Right now I have Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, Hamburg and Vienna.

Happy to answer questions about the process. Which city should I do next? Any other part of Amsterdam you would want to see like this?

Edit: AI disclosure, Built from OpenStreetMap and open city data with my own pipeline, no AI were used. Stop being paranoid people. (And Rude)

*Witnesses wanted – Strong Viking Amsterdam, Saturday 26 September 2026*

My brother and I took part in the 13 km course, starting in the 11:40 wave.

At obstacle 27 – the hanging bars and rings on a scaffold structure just before a water station – I was hanging from one of the bars at around 13:00 when one side of the bar came loose from its attachment. The bar dropped into a vertical position, and I fell to the ground.

I suffered a comminuted fracture of my right index finger and required surgery. It is not yet clear whether I will make a full recovery. The obstacle lane was closed for a short time after the incident.

*Were you at or near this obstacle around that time?*

Did you witness the incident, pass through shortly before or afterwards, or notice anything about the obstacle or its connections that might be relevant?

Please send me a private message describing, in your own words, what you personally saw or noticed and approximately when you were there. Please also include your name and a way to contact you.

Strong Viking has been informed of the incident. We enjoyed the event overall, and our aim is simply to establish as clearly as possible what happened. Please refrain from speculation about the cause or responsibility. We are only looking for factual information and first-hand accounts.

Thank you very much for your help!

*Photos:*

1. Me shortly before the fall (photo by the official Strong Viking event photographer).

2. Obstacle 27, photographed approximately one hour after the incident, following repairs.

3. X-ray showing my injury.

#StrongViking #StrongVikingAmsterdam #obstaclerun #OCR

Over the past few months I've been throwing too many tokens and too many nights at a edutainment game that was originally a little top down spy hunter / gta style boating game to learn the canal names that has now turned into me trying to model every building in the city to build a game to learn the streets, canals, bridges, landmarks and trivia about the city.

https://rideamsterdam.nl/

It uses spaced repetition behind the scenes to help you learn the street names, and has both a multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank version. For almost every street, it has an explanation of the source/history/meaning of the name.

The game has a huge focus on accuracy of the landscape. It has 500+ individually modeled buildings, and tries very hard to generate reasonable looking buildings based on size, location and age where it doesn't have custom models. I have a pipeline going to build per-buurt generators as well.

When I started modeling all the buildings I thought "oh lots of canal houses, it will be easy to have a couple of roofs, couple of windows and done, I can make any house in the city by mixing and matching" (this was not the case). As a result, noticing all the subtle (and not-so-subtle) variations across the city's architecture has been a beautiful and unexpected part of the development experience.

There's a github repo with all buildings as CC-BY and they're just pretty fun to look at https://rideamsterdam.nl/explore?model=adam-tower

Full disclosure this is entirely vibe coded slop. There are probably bugs and I am happy to fix them. If anyone wants to throw tokens at the modeling effort or hear more about the build process, get in touch!

EDIT: working on performance & crash fixes as we speak, have mostly been testing on an overpowered mac up until now

It's for ~50sqm apartment

Edit: Thanks for the replies, I had a call with the builder and it cleared up some things for me. He works a little different to my previous builder but the numbers all check out now, and it seems fair and reasonable to me.

Ben m20 en zoek mensen die het leuk zullen vinden om hier en daar samen te schaatsen bij jaap eden, haarlem of museamplein :)

Hi! I've been swimming in a canal next to my house all year and I'd love to keep going, however I'm not sure about how safe it is after the recent rainfall and now that I can't check on zwemwater any more. It's a canal that feeds into the IJ and isn't connected to other canals, there's almost no boat traffic. Anyone have any ideas?

Where can I buy jerk spices in Amsterdam?

Hi iedereen. Ik hoop dat alles goed met jullie gaat :)

Ik heb een vraag of iemand hier misschien een orthodontist kan aanraden voor in Amsterdam. Ik heb technisch gezien al een afspraak ingepland met Ortho Nova, maar die staat echt voor meer dan 2 maanden later ingepland (4 januari). Graag hoor ik graag van iemand die een goeie ervaring heeft gehad met een ortho hier of diegene ook een snelle afspraak kan doen, het liefst binnen een maand (dus voor december).