The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
Café de Sluyswacht
Every old house here floats on driven timber. This one shows the wobble honestly. I bring people to feel the ground the whole city stands on.
A leaning black timber lock-keeper's house from 1695, now a canal-side café. It tilts alarmingly because it was built on wooden piles in soft peat.
— Femke, The Historian
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