Theewinkel Het Kleinste Huis Amsterdam

This guide to Theewinkel Het Kleinste Huis in Amsterdam starts with the narrowest independent house in the city, just two meters wide, and its neighbor, the seventeenth-century Oost-Indisch Huis, headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. It follows the VOC's earliest tea shipments from Asia around 1610, and how the Dutch word for tea traveled with them into other European languages. Notice how few steps it takes to cross the entire width of the shop as you step inside.