An Autumn guide to Amsterdam: chic design hotels and majestic museums

And breathe. The year-long hoopla that has marked the build up to Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary finally comes to an end on 27 October. A last crescendo of events on the big day itself includes the cutting of a 75 metre long cake into 7,500 pieces at 7.50am on Dam Square by the Dutch city’s Mayor.

With that, Amsterdam will return to some sort of normality. Goodness what they will come up with to beat that for the 1000th.