A Few Oddball Art Exhibits in Utrecht
First off, a museum we didn’t have time to visit but from what little we saw, we really missed something. Museum Speelklok, a museum of music-making machines. Here are some […]
First off, a museum we didn’t have time to visit but from what little we saw, we really missed something. Museum Speelklok, a museum of music-making machines. Here are some […]
Kröller-Müller art museum just outside of Utrecht was reputed to have the second largest collection of Van Goghs in existence. And it did, but more about that in another post. […]
I’ve never seen a country with more symbols than Holland.* One of the quintessential symbols of Holland is wooden shoes, even though nobody wears them any more… except for goofy […]
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 […]
De Waag on Gouda’s town square was once the official weighing house for cheese traders and now has exhibits on the art of cheese-making and merchandising. The building, dating from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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