The Gable Stones of Amsterdam
Before Amsterdam had house numbering, they had a curious way of identifying addresses. Each house and building in the city used to have a st...
Before Amsterdam had house numbering, they had a curious way of identifying addresses. Each house and building in the city used to have a st...
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...
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...
Before diesel and electric engines made sailing convenient, boats and barges had to be either rowed or pulled. In many European countries su...
Sometimes a company or a government issues bonds that never mature. They are called perpetual bond, and as the name suggests, they remain in...
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...
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 ...
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...
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...