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She can do pastoral perfection too, you say, with verdant green fields dotted by brown cows just a minute cycle downriver? It means that British visitors must take a rapid antigen test every 24 hours, uploading their negative result to the CoronaCheck app to get indoor privileges. Testing is free at a multitude of sites all over the city. You go online, book a slot, stroll in with your passport and get swabbed within the space of three minutes. Fifteen minutes later, you receive your result the website warns that this can take up to two hours but this seems more rooted in expectation management than reality.

Other tourists seem to think so, at any rate; they are already starting to flood back to the city known for its pre-pandemic struggles with over-tourism. The good news is that escaping the herd is as easy as it ever was.

Cross the body of water known as the IJ that separates Amsterdam Noord from its mainland counterpart and things get even quieter. I feel, if anything, even more fed and revitalised than I normally do after a weekend in my favourite European city.

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