Culture

Take a Guided Tour of Amsterdam's Tourists

A wonderful way to spend a Saturday afternoon, turning the watched into the watchers.

We might think we know how to spot a tourist – the glacially slow walking pace, the religious consulting of maps, the huge fanny packs... oh god, the fanny packs.

But if you wanted to make sure your touristdar is fully calibrated, perhaps you should've taken this guided tourist-spotting tour in Amsterdam. You just might've learned something, such as that gathering indecisively around bridges is "typical tourist behavior" and that international visitors to Amsterdam sometimes take off their shirts on the street, because they "think it's normal in Holland."