Since 1998 our brand promise is an uncommon city Lexperience.

Private eastern city tours during SAIL Amsterdam, August 20-24, 2025 with small international private groups; we love it, and it shows! Enjoy the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam as well, by the way.
Including off the beaten track tours in the area of SAIL: the Eastern Docklands.
Lex and the City is the specialist in the neighborhood and has been in the field of activity for quite some years: sailing.

Unusual private tours during SAIL Amsterdam 2025. Very local tours during that famous maritime event in the Eastern Docklands in East Amsterdam. This the heart of SAIL: Veemkade.
SAIL on Veemkade, Eastern Docklands; photo by your private guide in Amsterdam during the event in 2015. Click for our dedicated all year long touring page of this area, where SAIL 2025 takes place.

 

Chicago-end-of-19th- century-style apartments on Cruquius island in Amsterdam East
Chicago-end-of-19th- century-style apartments on Cruquius island in Amsterdam East

Local guide & organizer during SAIL Amsterdam 2025; tour specialist of the Eastern Docklands.

During SAIL Amsterdam 2025 Lex and the City provides high end “Lexperiences“.
Meaning: private tours, for example in French. (Also in German, English and Dutch by the way.)

In its role of local guide during international events, Lex and the City focuses on the unusual, hidden gems, is out of the box, active,  conscious and acts tailor made.
One of the pillars of SAIL Amsterdam, “durability”, fits perfectly well within our mission in that tempting city.

 

Guide local francophone pendant SAIL Amsterdam 2025; page en français

 

 


Private guide and tour creator during SAIL; for example for french speaking people. 

Conscious living on a boat in Amsterdam - Lex and the City tours shows you. This has been an item during a tailor made bike tour with the theme sustainability.
Conscious living on a boat in Amsterdam has been an item during a bike tour for a family, with the theme sustainability.

Local guide SAIL Amsterdam, speaking 4 languages with focus on tours in French.
Lex has guided in Paris; he has even started there. Lex also has a French university tourism management degree; earned in Chambéry. (DESS Tourisme; Bac+5)

So he (and his network of local guides with the same mission and spirit.) is perfectly able of helping out French speaking groups and individuals who visit SAIL Amsterdam 2025.



Lex and the City loves the area of SAIL 2025. (in Amsterdam East.)

Make sure you reserve the private guide with 20 years of experience (Lexperience) in the field of guiding on wheels. Meaning: bicycle, inline skate, scooter/footbike. (Also walking tours.)
The area, including Java Island, Borneo Island, Oostelijke Handelskade, Rietlanden, Veemkade and KNSM Island, are great quarters for local tours with the storyteller of the Eastern part of Amsterdam
Guided tour by boat? Continue reading..

 

Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam East is refreshing and unusual for a private boat tour. This picture from Lex is taken from KNSM Island.
The Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam East is refreshing and unusual for a private boat tour. This picture from Lex is taken from KNSM Island. Almost in the heart of SAIL Amsterdam…

 

Private guided boat “Lexperience” during SAIL Amsterdam; August, 2025: in “Oostelijk Havengebied” (Eastern Docklands and river IJ) 

Private boat tour in Amsterdam East with Lex and those City guides.
No, these are not our guides. ;) (yet)

SAIL Amsterdam 2025 is a great opportunity to enjoy a private boat tour with Lex and the City. We are actually focused on the area where this spectaculair nautic event takes place and we love to guide you and your group on this modern and environmental friendly boat. The tour will take place in a circle around the area of SAIL. (So an unusual experience, as you are used from-, or have possibly heard about– Lex and the City.)

The Drift Away is a solar powered high-end ship and has space for max. 8 persons.
Another Amsterdam Lexperience: on the water.
More about our high-end guided private boat tours in Amsterdam East, including river IJ and river Amstel.

Lex and the City local, private and unusual Amsterdam areas tour & guiding service is available for other boats as well to accompany french speaking people and families on the water in their own language.


Sailing boat Amsterdam Hotel with Lex and the City; a Lexperience
BBQ on board. Ship: Mare Fan Fryslan, the largest sailing boat of NL for leisure purposes. (62m). Group experience with us in 2007.


Join your private guide after the nautic event SAIL above Amsterdam: windmills, cheese, beaches and Texel Island.

Lex and the City likes & knows the area above Amsterdam as well: let’s hit Texel island hard, or check out our private bike tour to Zaanse Schans. So think about this private bike and/or sail excursion (Lexcursion in our case.) after having visited SAIL Amsterdam.

Lex and the City has years of experience with sailing with groups in the northern part of the Netherlands as well. (We do not do that anymore; it is just to let you know we love it as well.)

We have had loads of free publicity over the years. (Including the Washington Post and the Sunday Times.) This press page is mostly written in Dutch by the way.

Lexperienced” tour molder & creator in Amsterdam-East.. Come join us for 1 hour walking & biking tours around hotels in East Amsterdam. (All year long.)

Famous sailing boat at Veemkade, in the heart of the SAIL Amsterdam 2025 area. By that curious guide and founder of Lex and the City. It is Sailing boat Amerigo Vespucci from Italy; August 20, 2019.
Photo at Veemkade, SAIL Amsterdam area. By that curious guide and founder of Lex and the City. (Sailing boat Amerigo Vespucci from Italy; August 20, 2019.)

 


Hidden gem bike tour all year long in the area where this nautic event takes place: the Eastern Docklands.

p-Oostcard from private local guide of Amsterdam-East Lex and the City - Eastern Lexperiences
Lex and the City branding style in East Amsterdam

The Eastern Docklands is the area of the worlds’ largest nautic event. Discover the area on a city bike with us.
Our dedicated all year long page with a cool, sustainable, active private tour in the Eastern Docklands in East Amsterdam.

The private and unexpected guide of Amsterdam East will tell you all about the Eastern Docklands.
This 12K hidden gem tour will take place in the ancient harbor which has been transformed into a great place to live and be. Your private local Amsterdam tour guide will tell you about the quick development of the Amsterdam Eastern Docklands. And about the modern architecture.

Highlights and hidden gems in the Eastern Docklands during the bike tour:
– Java island with the “canals 2.0”. (chk the picture)
– KNSM island
– Lloyd history
– The ancient warehouses
– A cool local brewery
– Club Panama
– Python bridge
– The smallest museum of the world.


Lex van Buuren is a storyteller in Paris and in Amsterdam. He advises companies and other groups in Paris | SEO copywriter | social media marketer, out of the box style. And DJ Lextase: on the move.
Maybe your private local tour guide on board. (And surely the molder & maker of that unusual tour.)

Tailor made quotation for a private tour during SAIL Amsterdam 2025 & contact

+31655337726 | [email protected]

Rates will be for guiding, creating and molding the private tour / in Amsterdam and North Holland. Including our extensive knowledge about usual AND unusual Amsterdam. :) (The rent of a sailing boat and/or bikes is added.)

 

 

Leading UK Newspaper asked Lex and the City to show them those, pretty cool, Amsterdam Eastern Docklands. 

In 2024. In the 1st paragraph Lex is showing and telling. (and enthusing the journalist from the UK.)

 

 

Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam East - Cruquius Island - Former Warehouses Monday to Sunday - Near SAIL 2025
Those Eastern Docklands in Amsterdam-East – Cruquius Island – Former Warehouses “Monday to Sunday” – Near SAIL 2025 – Picture taken in fall 2024 by Lex
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