It has been the utmost pleasure to stay in Martine's apartment.

Martine has decorated her home with impeccable taste. It is almost too nice a place to be in as it can detract from going out and enjoying the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Once you master those incredibly steep dutch staircases you are presented with a very bright living room with adjacent reading corner. The meals area adjoins through some sliding doors where another glassed balcony area prepared with comfy armchairs waits for more people to read in them.

There a bedroom upstairs with adjoining 2nd bedroom where another person (or two) can sleep on a couch-bed. The whole place is bright and welcoming - just as Martine.

Location is in the heart of Amsterdam, a few hundred meters away from Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh museum and all the action. Martine's street is beautiful, quiet and just a joy to stand at the bottom of the house and watch people going by on bikes.

If there's anything on the negative it is that we did not stay long enough...