Amsterdam is wonderfully contradictory, with it's cute cafés and smoggy coffee shops; cyclists and motorists competing everywhere; buildings that look like leaning doll houses against brand new museums; infamous red lights and sparkling street lamps; and a language that seemed like the perfect mix between English and German.     If there were one thing that you’d find hard to contest, it would be the quality of Amsterdam’s food. It could have been the rainy, sometimes snowy, January weather. Or maybe the fact that we never quite worked out the logic behind the canals, snaking between streets like hedges in... [ READ MORE ]