Amsterdam's constricted centre — with its crooked canal houses and overcrowded bike stands — is the last place you'd expect to find an Ikea.Yet the Swedish megastore's familiar yellow and blue logo is now on display in the Dutch capital.But it is not a change in strategy from one of Sweden's best-known exports.
It's not an Ikea at all. It's a bar protesting COVID restrictions.Steven Koudijs and Tomas Adamer took over Spijkerbar — which first opened its doors in 1978 is the city's oldest gay bar — on March 1, 2020.
But just two weeks later they were forced to close its doors after PM Mark Rutte announced a coronavirus lockdown."We had planned another month for the handover with the previous owner and wanted to start on April 1st.