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Orange Explosion

The entire Netherlands has gone completely world cup insane. Anywhere you turn there is something orange hanging from something else. At any hour of the day you can hear a vuvuzela trumpeting for no specific reason. And leading up to...

Giro D'Italia

You'll probably want to read this first line twice to make sure you understand it correctly: The Giro D'Italia is coming to The Netherlands. I'll wait while you read it again. That is correct, the Italian equivalent of the Tour...

Eurosonic

It has been referred to as the New Years Party for the Dutch music industry, Eurosonic Noorderslag is the don't miss music festival of January 2010. What started as a modest Groningen music festival at the beginning of each year,...

KLM Does a BioFuel Demo

They're still a long way from flying a commercial airliner on only biofuel, but this week KLM did fly a commercial jet with some biofuel. Out of the 4 engines of the 747 in question, 1 was powered by a...

Streetview Goes Themepark

Many of you are no doubt familiar with the fantastic google maps option known as Street View. This option gives you the power to not only see a map but also to walk at the street level and see everything...

New Rollercoaster for 2009

The US is of course famous for its fun parks with the twisty-crazy roller coasters that can make you lose your lunch. But did you know that the Netherlands also has its share of world class roller coasters and fun...

A Photo Slideshow of Queen's Day 09

Queen's Day 2009, despite the tragic event that took place in Apeldoorn, was still a day filled with alot of fun and beautiful moments. It may sound strange, but as someone who was driving a boat around most of the...

Utrecht Week

Much of this week I will be in Utrecht. Its only about 30 minutes by train from Amsterdam so I'll be commuting back and forth, and in between taking photos, visiting interesting spots, and reporting back to you about what...

Olympic Candidate

Perhaps a little known fact: Amsterdam is a candidate for the 2028 Olympics as well as the World Championships of 2014. Seem far away? Remember when Beijing 2008 sounded futuristic? In order to get and keep the city in the...

Zuiderzee Museum

I'm planning a visit to the Zuidersee Museum now that spring is here. It is not one of those big name museums that people come to Holland hoping to see, but I hear great things about the different aspects of...

Marathons are On!

Everywhere you look in the Netherlands right now, people are ice skating. I walked by my local hardware store and people are standing outside looking in the store room window at various types of ice skates that are for sale....

Ice Skating Fever too Soon?

Dutch newspapers have run a few articles about what they refer to as ice skating fever; the rush to get out there and ice skate on natural surfaces. This comes as temperatures over the past few days have stayed around...

A Winter Biking in Amsterdam Video

You've heard me mention him before, but once again I have to point out some great work by Marc over at Amsterdamize, the one-stop Amsterdam cycle-chic blog. Marc and I have both been making video for the internet for a...

Revolving Door Power

Word on the internet is that there is a café in the town of Zeist with a revolving door that generates power. That's right - every time someone walks through the revolving door, they generate enough power to make a...

New Transport Card System

The title of this post is a bit misleading. But stay with me. For as long as I've been kicking around in the Netherlands (several years) there has always been the strippenkaart system. One long paper card with 16 or...

Magic Mushroom Ban Saga

FIle this one under, "things tourists probably won't believe". As of December 1st of this year, barring some miracle, magic mushrooms will be banned in the Netherlands. Specifically that means no more shops, better known as smart shops, selling hallucinogenic...

Smoking in Cafés Update

I'm sure you're wondering to yourself "gee, the smoking ban has been in effect for several months now, how is it going over there?" Indeed any café you walk into these days, all over the Netherlands, the only thing you...

JoHo

The JoHo foundation is an international organization that runs on the basis of work, travel and international cooperation and has locations all over the world. Rotterdam is a home to one of the JoHo centers. I find JoHo to be...

Starting off in Groningen

As a longtime blogger and podcasting citizen reporter, I received a kind invite to speak at the University of Groningen in the North of the Netherlands. Which was of course a good chance to snap some photos, wander around, and...

To-Do List

The cold air is causing everyone to seek warm places with warm performances, here what I recommend this weekend: Friday: Zuco103, they're huge and you'll find them at Paradiso; Grote Zaal, 8pm, €14 + membership. I have never heard of...