The Historian · Femke · Amsterdam
In 't Aepjen
The idiom 'in de aap gelogeerd' — lodged with the monkeys — is born here. Sailors traded pets for beds. I love a bar that gave a language its saying.
One of the last two wooden houses in the city, and a sailors' tavern for centuries. Broke seamen paid in monkeys, giving Dutch a phrase for being in trouble.
— Femke, The Historian
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