Showing posts with the label Netherlands

Dutch Prisons Are Being Converted Into Hotels And Apartments Because of Lack of Prisoners

Nov 8, 2018

The Netherlands has a problem with prisons and prisoners, just like any other country. But while the rest of the world is struggling with ov...

Letters of Utrecht: The Endless Poem

Nov 3, 2018

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, a poem is growing—one letter at a time, every week, for the past six years. Every Saturday, at around one in...

Horse-Drawn Boats

Oct 30, 2018

Before diesel and electric engines made sailing convenient, boats and barges had to be either rowed or pulled. In many European countries su...

The 17th Century Bond That’s Still Paying Interest

Aug 18, 2018

Sometimes a company or a government issues bonds that never mature. They are called perpetual bond, and as the name suggests, they remain in...

Netherlandish Proverbs

Jan 18, 2018

Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...

Leiden’s Love Affair With Poems And Equations

Dec 7, 2017

Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...

How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution With Land Art

Jun 21, 2017

Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, located just 9 km southwest of the city, is the third busiest airport in Europe and one of the busiest in the ...

Mudflat Hiking in The Wadden Sea

Jun 1, 2017

The southeastern edge of the North Sea, along the coast from Denmark through to the Netherlands, is a shallow belt of mudflats and barrier i...

De Poezenboot: Amsterdam’s Cat Boat

May 3, 2017

A city with over one hundred kilometers of canals, it’s no surprise that Amsterdam is full of houseboats. However, one such boat in the hist...

The Second Life of Wind Turbine Blades

Jan 12, 2017

As the world pushes towards renewable energy, the wind energy industry comes to the forefront as a clean and a genuinely green energy. And l...