Posts from ‘January, 2010’

It’s dangerous on Dutch roads during the weekend:
Snow and frost have left roads across the Netherlands dangerously icy, the Royal Dutch Touring Club warns, causing many accidents.
The ANWB says most of the country is covered by between 5 and 8 centimetres of snow that fell overnight. Police are reporting more accidents than usual for a [...]

One of the best-known computer games in the world comes from Amsterdam. Killzone 2 has sold millions of copies and it was made by Guerrilla Games. The Netherlands’ cartoon and animation industry focuses primarily on short films but one of the world’s largest games’ studios is located in the heart of Amsterdam’s historic canal district.
Interviewed [...]

This from RNW’s review of Dutch press: what a tangled web we weave.
Sperm donor mix-up
“White woman gives birth to black son, father unknown” is the headline in AD, above a bizarre tale of a white lesbian couple, one of whom went to the local hospital to be inseminated with the sperm of a good friend [...]

Café Oosterling is the best bar in Amsterdam, it’s number two in the Dutch Hotel Restaurant and Bar Industry’s “Horeca Top 100″, so - on a national level - comes second only to Café De Beyerd in the southern city of Breda.
As long ago as 1735, tea and coffee were being served at Café Oosterling, [...]

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