Going Dutch

Today we finally visited a place this been on my "to visit" list for quite a while, Wassenaar . This affluent little town lies in...

For a few weeks now the Netherlands (like much of Northern Europe) has been experiencing a real cold spell which has resulted in many of the...

The name of the street on which we live is Sillemstraat and ever since we have lived there I have wondered what the origin of "Sillem...

Today Sinterklaas made his entry into Haarlem and we went along to see it. He also arrived in other Dutch towns and cities, for example Amst...

Today was the day of the arrival of Sinterklaas which marks the start of the Dutch festive season. Sinterklaas is the equivalent of Santa ...

Today is the feast day of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin's day or Martinmas) in the Netherlands. Sint Maarten was originally a Roman soldie...

During our trip to Utrecht we visited the very large Hoog Catherijne shopping centre (one of the few large indoor shopping centres in the Ne...