Industrial Sunsets in Amsterdam’s NDSM
NDSM is Amsterdam’s Industrial Zone that is now becoming the new art zone. We spent a week in an Air B&B canal boat parked in the Amsterdam Marina and from […]
Category Archives: Holland
Gouda Cheese in Gouda, Holland
De Waag on Gouda’s town square was once a weighing house for cheese traders and now has exhibits on the art of cheese-making and merchandising. The building, dating from 1668, […]
The Perfect Gift for a Beer Drinker Visiting Amsterdam
In Amsterdam’s Café Chris, we met a couple of English beer fanatics. The wife proudly showed off the gift her daughter had made for her birthday: a well-researched guide to […]
The Arendsnest Pub in Amsterdam, Holland
A huge selection of Dutch beers along with a cozy interior make the Arendsnest Pub a great choice to visit when in Amsterdam. The list of beers on tap the day we […]
Does Holland Have Bridges?
Holland, with its many canals, has of course many bridges to go over the canals. The bulk of them are drawbridges that allow for boats to travel through like this […]
To Read in Holland: The Tulip Craze (and the First Financial Bubble)
1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]
Side Trip from Amsterdam: Marken, a Village with Bright Painted Houses
Various sources raved about Ijsselmeer, a huge artificial lake of great beauty just outside Amsterdam. Our plan was to visit the three villages of Hoorn, Edam and Marken in the area. Our B&B host told us […]
