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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, [...]

This weekend I was a very lucky person - I got to go to the Lowlands festival… for free.
For those of you who have no idea what that is, it’s a 3-day music festival held in the Dutch province of Flevoland. Basically, along with 60-thousand other people, you camp and party and drink and dance [...]

Ages and ages and ages ago, when Michel and I were in Afghanistan, I did a video about the management of, well, sh** on kamp Holland.
I finally got around to editing the video… and here it is.
And btw, no, the first two systems don’t smell… and yes, the third one does. A lot.
Have fun!

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In these times of financial crisis, many of us are making cutbacks. Maybe we used to go to the local bakery for their fresh baked loaves of bread… and now we’re eating the cheap stuff from the local supermarket.
But one Amsterdam bakery has a solution: bake your own “recession bread”.
I went to that bakery - [...]

This week’s Dutch feature music artist (ok, it was actually last week’s) is/was Lucky Fonz III.
Over the years, we’ve featured Lucky more than any other artist… this time we hear he’s got a new album out - “A family like yours” - what Robbert calls “happy music” with “an undeniable summer feeling” - good timing [...]

Who’s Dinie? That’s what a woman named Nieves wondered for years after finding a letter in a bottle that had washed up on the shores of her home in Cuba. Four decades after finding the letter from Dinie - all the way from Holland - Nieves decided to find out who Dinie really was.
The letter [...]

A couple days ago I posted a story about the opening of the Goldfish Hotel in Schipol airport here in Holland… here’s another story about how much the Dutch love their pets…

Blood analysis, echoscope, physiotherapy and acupuncture: in the Zuidplas Animal Clinic in Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, pets get the best care veterinary science has [...]

The Dutch are known for traveling far and wide, and many have made permanent homes in foreign countries… but, like most expats, no matter how much they love their new homes, there are some things they miss about their old home.
Watch this video by Marjolein Stoop to find out what expat Dutch miss most (or [...]

This week’s feature Dutch music artist is Elle Bandita. Our Music Man, Robbert Tilli from the Music Center of the Netherlands, calls her the Dutch Joan Jet.
Elle - her real name is Ryanne - started out as a guitarist for the now-defunct all-girl punk rock band “The Riplets”. When the band broke up in 2006, [...]

I finally tasted Dutch “nieuwe haring” (new herring).
And it wasn’t half bad.
For those uninitiated readers out there, “haring” (herring) is a type of small fish (about 5-6 inches / 12-16 cm). They’re often eaten pickled or smoked, but in Holland, they’re cured with salt and eaten raw, sometimes served with pickles and/or chopped raw onions. [...]