Excerpt from “A European Odyssey: How A Boxer’s Daughter Found Grace”
“If Paris and Edinburgh had an affair their love child would look like Amsterdam. Canals lined with savvy and kinky shops and services safely contained within a handsome, brooding exterior. And the citizens would be good looking and very tall; this last quality, quintessentially Dutch, came across like an unexpected perk. Short people can be annoying, while tall people, in general, are often not.
This was illustrated one beautiful day in early spring. It wasn’t raining as I walked along one of the main canals called Prinsengracht…”