Happening Amsterdam is a collective, founded & curated by Ragna and Noortje, two authentic Amsterdam girls who were both born and raised in this amazing city. Twenty years ago, a mutual love for all the good things Amsterdam has to offer brought Ragna & Noortje together, and today these two friends are sharing that passion -and their unique insider knowledge- with you, right here on Happening Amst
erdam! And a good thing they are, because there’s much, much more to Amsterdam than just tourboats, museums, and the Red Light district. In Amsterdam, you can experience the amazing even without visiting a coffeeshop or a smartstore, because this city is and always has been on the cutting edge of culture. In recent years, Amsterdam has grown into a truly cosmopolitan city, where you can find the best food, the tastiest cocktails, the hardest parties, year-round music and food festivals, amazing pop-up stores, incredible shopping and mind blowing hotspots hiding in old churches and warehouses. Usually, the best a city has to offer is reserved for the locals; visitors have to make-do with outdated travel guides and whatever information earlier visitors are willing to share online. As a visitor you never seem to get that real, that insider, that in-the-know, locals-only sort of information. More often than not, you only find out about the very best spots after you’ve gone home. At least, not in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam we have Ragna & Noortje, who’ve let their passions, their knowledge, their travel experiences and the wants and needs of their many international friends inspire them to create Happening Amsterdam. Call it a blog, call it a platform, call it a collective, call it whatever you want, Happening Amsterdam is a place -is the place!- where people who visit Amsterdam can connect with the knowledge of the people who live here. Among other things, Happening Amsterdam offers a monthly top 5 of the places currently favored by the locals, and lots of interviews with the sort of real Amsterdammers who know every in and out of the city. So why the hell are you still reading this?! Go to happeningamsterdam.com and start discovering Happening Amsterdam!
