Tag: the dutch
member name: P.A Moed
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October 04, 2006 09:09 PM EDT --
C is for Canals. There are hundreds of them. Everywhere you look, you see water, which gives you the odd sensation that you really are walking on water! Combined with a high average rainfall, we quickly . . .
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October 09, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
The Dutch know how to relax. At the beach in Zanvoort an Zee, the snack trucks are pulled by tractor trailer up and down the beach so you don't have to walk far to get your fried fish and French . . .
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October 04, 2006 07:56 PM EDT --
The best way to get to know Amsterdam. We climbed on the black utilitarian bikes our hosts left us and zigzagged down the streets. The bikes had no gears and only one had handbrakes. Taking a deep breath, . . .
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October 08, 2006 03:07 PM EDT --
When Mozart was 11, he played sublime music on this organ at St. Bavo's Church in Utrecht. But how did his feet reach the pedals? Even during a practice session, the sound was mesmerizing . . .
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October 08, 2006 02:21 PM EDT --
Etty Hillesum's diaries written during World War II provide a 24-year-old's view of the German occupation. We visited her hometown of Deventer and the research center devoted to the promulgation . . .
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October 08, 2006 02:59 PM EDT --
Koffie verkeerd, our favorite drink in the Netherlands, translates into upside down coffee--in other words there's more milk and less coffee than usual. (We also liked the cookie that came with every . . .
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October 08, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
I is for Io, our host's cat, that we cared for during our stay.
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October 05, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
Dutch dogs are a motley lot--some pedigree, some mutts, and some unidentifiable breeds we had never seen before. (The one in the picture appears to be mostly wolf.) Unlike their exuberant . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:51 AM EDT --
E is for energy. They definitely use plug-in power less in the Netherlands. The refrigerator in our host's house was about the size of the one we had in college. Permanent recycling stands were . . .
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