Everything is for sale on the Albert Cuyp market
In nearly every district of Amsterdam there is a market where everything is for sale. Merchandise ranges from chickens to suits off the peg, to name a couple of extremes. Of these, the Albert Cuyp is the most international and certainly, one of the liveliest. The smells of herring, grilled chicken, cheese, fish, fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants assail you right from the start at the Ferdinand Bolstraat. If the seventeenth century painter Albert Cuyp were to see the street named after him, he would immediately take out his sketchbook to record the crisscross of the people there. After all, people from all over the world drop by to ‘take in’ the Albert Cuyp, even if they might express it differently themselves. The Albert Cuyp market is located in one of the friendliest neighbourhoods in Amsterdam, De Pijp. The market vendors, by the way, are just as international as the passers-by. The chicken farmer from West-Friesland who has been there for years will be found standing fraternally shoulder tot shoulder with the Turk selling oriental spices and meat products.

Strolling
At the Albert Cuyp market you van only stroll. On a lovely summer day it is worth taking your time. Screeching woman gesticulate energetically in front of a T-shirt stall talking about colours, price and the problem of goods fading in the wash. A bit further on there’s an attractive young woman unabashedly trying on a pair of jeans, almost in the middle of the market.