Ever felt like you were born in the wrong time? Like you should have been born much earlier so you could have been an explorer of new lands? But what about the guilt of invading the space of indigenous populations and the disasters that come as a result? Well luckily, you were born too late [...]

You will never go hungry on the streets of Amsterdam for lack of restaurants. It seems like every block has at least one. That is actually sometimes the problem. Too many options leads someone like me to start panicking and unable to make up her mind, especially if you are without a guidebook and have [...]

As you may have noticed, we love cemeteries here at Atlas Parasite. Well, another one of our less creepy, but definitely more nerdy, obsessions is libraries! And let me tell you, when I walked into the Amsterdam Public Library last month, I was totally, gleefully nerding out.

I was only turned on to sushi a few years ago, being forced to eat it by a couple of friends (Jeremy Piven was not one of them) who really wanted to go to a sushi restaurant when we found ourselves shopping in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. The moment the shrimp tempura roll touched [...]

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Maria Romano
San Diego, California

Amsterdam: beautiful row houses, Anne Frank, canals, Rijksmuseum, marijuana. You know you thought of it too. As much as Amsterdam has to offer in the way of high art and culture, the “drug tourism” associated with the famously liberal city is omnipresent. Cannabis use and sale is tolerated in the Netherlands [...]

Next to the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam, there is a small boat on dry land that has a sign advertising something like “Rope Museum – Free Entrance”. I was already curious to see what a “rope museum” showcases, but then you add the free part, and there’s no reason not to check it out.
Once inside the [...]