About the Author During her Amsterdam travels, Karla admired art, bicycled crash-free, ate an embarrassing number of Droste chocolates and bent over to take her jenever like a local. She has been visiting Amsterdam since 1989, decades that have seen her trade space cakes for stroopwafels, to a much more pleasant effect. Based in Chicago, Karla writes travel features for newspapers, books, magazines and radio. She has authored or co-authored several Lonely Planet guidebooks covering the USA, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe.
