Posts Tagged ‘Amsterdam’

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 week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…

Are you scared when it comes down to performing?
Don’t worry, even professionals share your fears. We’ll tell you how a Dutch psychiatrist reaches out to musicians with stage fright. (More on our RNW website)
Being gay in Africa is not an easy thing. That’s why the former leader [...]

A fake in the Rijksmuseum! Shocking!
Nope, it’s not a Rembrandt or Van Gogh… it’s a moon rock.
Or rather, it’s a fake moon rock.
According to curators, the rock - which was was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a visit from the Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969 - is nothing [...]

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. [...]

Holland - and especially Amsterdam - has been known for some time as a gay-friendly place.
And now it’s going to a whole new level.
Apparently, an Amsterdam park has put up signs designating areas where gay cruising tends to happen and where guys are getting it on… after the city council received complaints about the sexual [...]

Ok, when I add this to my canal-muck-dredging video, I know you’ll all think I’m a garbage-gunk-grossness junkie… but today I saw old bicycles being hauled out of one of the canals in Amsterdam… and it was so cool I just had to take some pictures!
Enjoy!
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Continuing with the theme of spring… Seddiq Mossadeq sent this photo to our Dutch “Wereldnet” bloggers… who then passed it on to us - the perfect combination of where we’ve been and were we are now!
Seddiq says, “For two years I’ve grown these tulips in my garden in Kabul. Whether they could also grow in [...]

Ok. I’ll admit, it’s been a little quiet here on the Curious Orange blog. It’s terrible how life interferes with writing to all our dear and devoted readers, isn’t it?
But I promise we have a good excuse.
Which I will reveal very, very soon.
But in the mean time, I’ve just edited my second ever video! Go [...]