Quiet Amsterdam
By Siobhan Wall (2009, Image Found)

Christmas and New Year celebrated with lots of love and fervour, it is time to get back to work and just slip in some peace to recover from all that activity. If you are in Amsterdam at this time then Quiet Amsterdam is the ideal guide for you to do just that. Siobhan Wall put in a serious effort to put together places where a major feature of the ambience is the quiet, relaxed atmosphere. The book in itself sets the mood through its excellent black/white photographs of unusual and unknown places. Most of the places may have never come up in the routine traditional guides, so even if you are an Amsterdamer there may be surprises for you. Spread over twelve chapters you just flip the page to the kind of place you are heading to – small cafes, parks and garden or further to places by water. The only negative, it’s a limited 1000 copy edition.