DK Travel : Amsterdam : Shopping

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Boerenmarkt

Amsterdam’s organic Saturday “farmer’s market” is a treat rather than a routine shopping trip. Cruise the stalls to the accompaniment of some fine busking and sample free goats’ cheese and other goodies – plus freshly-baked bread, flowers and a fabulous fungi selection.
Bulbs

Check your country’s import regulations before packing this fabulous floral souvenir into your luggage.
Cannabis

Don’t even think about it.
Cheese

If you don’t have time to make it to an out-of-town cheese market, visit De Kaaskamer for a mouth-watering selection that’s guaranteed to impress more than Edam or Gouda.
Clogs

The quintessential Dutch footwear; be in fashion, and be heard.
Condoms

Novelty condoms galore, and in a variety of flavours; the city’s infamous Condomerie will oblige.
Coppenhagen 1001 Kralen

Beads and then even more beads – from gaudy plastic ones to real pearls, amber and semiprecious stones – and also lots of jewellery accessories.
De Belly

Unable to wait for Saturday’s organic market? Then head to this friendly organic store. Pulses, grains, candles, soaps, fresh fruit and vegetables, plus a good selection of wine and beer.
De Bijenkorf

Named “The Beehive” (which just about sums it up if you’re here at the weekend), Amsterdam’s prestigious department store caters for everyone from children to clubbers. Often described as the Dutch Harrods, prices ensure that it’s only the well-honied that tend to part with their cash here.
De Kaaskamer

For cheese with a capital C, try “The Cheese Chamber”, where there are over 200 different kinds of one of Holland’s best exports. If it isn’t here, it probably doesn’t exist.