Things to do in Holland - A different one every time

I have to thank Sara Veronica M. for unearthing this gem! Edmondo De Amicis is an Italian writer from the XIX century, know and possibly l...

In many European countries (and several others around the world) people are celebrating Carnival this weekend. In the Southern Provinces...

Finally, after years of living nearby and biking in front of it every single morning, I managed to visit the Louwan Automobile Museum and I ...

Today we discovered this very nice network of cafes and workshops run by an organisation called Ipse de Brugge providing assistance, support...

A.Vogel is a company that makes natural remedies from plants. Regardless of mine or anyone's stance on the topic, it's possible to v...

Discover what's going on in those famous Dutch greenhouses this weekend during Kom in de Kas (Come to the Greenhouse). The website u...

Huis Doorn is a manor house not far from Utrecht. Not long ago I read the excellent Geert Mak's In Europa , which I warmly recommend, ...

I had seen some of these small, nicely decorated boxes while driving or biking around. Lately one appeared in the neighborhood so I had th...

Many people are well aware that Rotterdam suffered a terrible bombing at the beginning of WWII, that left the city almost completely destroy...

There's an hotel in Stavoren, a town on the "Friesland side" of the Ijsselmeer, that offers its customers a very unusual sleep...

While lazily driving around on side roads one Saturday afternoon, we ended up in Moontfort, saw a working windmill and decided to give a loo...

(Ok, there's nothing more stereotypical that suggesting to visit some windmills while in Holland, but these are special, I promise!) A...

While waiting for my patat met on Saturday during Vlaggetjesdag , I spotted these newcomers in Henk's Patat display: "New" th...

In Zaandvoort ann Zee there's a man, Victor Bol, with the passion for collecting stuff that have been washed up on the beach at the popu...

Inspired by a feature on the NS magazine, here's a recap of the Dutch royal palaces and other castles open to the public: Paleis Het L...

If, like me, you are an aficionado of the look behind the scenes, the factory tour, the "How it's made" show on Discovery Cha...

We are not big Valentine people Mr Thingstodoinholland and I, so I do not have any suggestion for a conventionally romantic date. I do hav...

According to an unspecified British women magazine 81% of the readers prefer buying shoes to sex. This just proves that women's magazi...

If you have ever been by metro from The Hague to Rotterdam, soon after Leidschenveen's stop, you will notice on the left an incongruous ...

There has been a call for artists to submit possible official portraits of Willem Alexander, 12 were shortlisted and 3 were eventually chose...