Of Bikes, Bakeries, And Brouwerijs

I moved to Amsterdam at the end of October, but instead of finding dozens of pumpkin beers, I was greeted by scores of bocks. It's really the only seasonal specialty beer that the Dutch do, so I've already jumped ahead. My wife was offered a job that would relocate our family to Amsterdam for a couple years, and that just didn't seem like an offer worth refusing. If a European vacation is nice, a two-year stint must be amazing. Two months into it, we have successfully stopped thinking of ourselves as tourists on holiday. We are Dutch now–if being Dutch means that I've tried all 27 bakeries within a four block radius, anyway.