"It’s every year on this date (unless the 30th happens to fall on a Sunday; then it’s April 29th) that people all over Holland—and Amsterdammers in particular—fête the birthday of their Queen. (That’s Beatrix, and her actual birthday is in January..."
The Best Travel Writing About the Netherlands
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Articles about The Netherlands
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Queen's Day
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Maria Shollenbarger
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam Region
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Amsterdam
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Annual European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF)
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Maria Shollenbarger
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The Netherlands
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Limburg
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Maastricht
"By playing host to one of the art world’s most anticipated annual events, attended by top auctioneers, gallery owners, and dealers from as far away as Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and San Francisco. Every spring, the Annual European Fine Art Fair—or..."
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Amsterdam Hashville
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Justine Hardy
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam Region
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Amsterdam
"There is no value to being a narcotic virgin in Amsterdam. The point of decades of ‘no thank-you’, and passing the joint right along, is utterly wasted on the free bicycling and bell-tringing residents of this city-as-movie-set. To do..."
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Cycling with Rembrandt
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Philip Sen
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam Region
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Amsterdam
"Everyone loves a party, and few more so than the Dutch. Never mind that the cause celebre is a chap some three centuries dead. The year 2006 marked the 400th birthday of the Netherlands' most famous son, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (just '..."
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Trolls on Bikes
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Jasper Winn
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The Netherlands
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Limburg
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Valkenburg
"The Dutch don't have much in the way of high ground, so tend to extract maximum value from the few undulations, slopes or knobbles that their country can actually muster. South Limburg is the most up 'n' down-iest province they've got, and therefore..."
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Mud-Walking in the Netherlands
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Jasper Winn
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The Netherlands
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other areas of the Netherlands
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Wadden Islands
"With no mountains but plenty of mud, the Dutch have made wadlopen - literally 'mud walking' - their equivalent of fell-running. Every year thousands of Netherlanders pay good money to be led on route marches, anything up to 16 kilometers in distance..."
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Wheelie Good or Cyclo-Babble?
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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The Netherlands
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other areas of the Netherlands
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Friesland
"Motivational speakers, counsellors, and other arch-criminals who make their living out of telling people visualisation is critical to success in life, might be interested to know it doesn’t extend to other people. That’s called tyranny and I’m..."
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Shopping in Amsterdam
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Jasper Winn
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam Region
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Amsterdam
"The Dutch like shopping for Dutch reasons - it’s a space-efficient way of keeping people amused, there are bargains to be had and it’s a statement of individualism. That’s the key, individualism. Department stores and commercial chains hardly..."
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Why Go To Amsterdam?
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Matthew Barker
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam Region
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Amsterdam
"Hazy memories of stag nights and hedonistic back-pack jaunts may have left you with a rather one-sided view of this wonderful old city. This time when you step out of Centraal Station get your head down and keep going through that sleazy square mile..."
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To Holland To Skate
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Jasper Winn
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The Netherlands
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other areas of the Netherlands
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Friesland
"Each winter I wait for a phone call. As the mercury drops and English weather gets 'worse,' my hopes rise. Once in every three or four years a Dutch friend will call me, reporting on the first glazing of ice across the canals and lakes. By the time..."
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