Pubs and bars in Amsterdam have a particular style, as Alastair Gilmour reports. I’m not into acting or role-play; I’d run a mile if invited to a theatre workshop, but somehow I’ve absorbed a character in a book. I blame Bernard MacLaverty. His Midwinter Break published last year contains so much personal detail it’s got to be autobiographical – but it’s also biographically me. Briefly, a couple “getting-on” in years take a short holiday to Amsterdam; she to visit the immacul