Last Saturday it was ‘National Tulip Day’ in the Netherlands; the celebration of the start of the new tulip season. In the middle of winter, it was freezing cold but sunny, the Dutch celebrate a flower. Yes, that’s right.…
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januari 2017
One of my favourite restaurants from the last few months is for sure Tschebull in Hamburg, Germany. We enjoyed our dinner her so much, that we went back there 2 days later for lunch! It’s a Beisl, the Austrian…
There’s a new kid in town; Anna van den Vondel, a luxury home-from-home feeling boutique hotel in Amsterdam. A stone’s throw away from Amsterdam’s most well known and beautiful city-park “Het Vondelpark”, this completely renewed and refurbished hotel just…
Mussels the classic way. Like the Belgiums prepare mussels. Without cream but with white wine or, sometimes, beer. With vegetables and herbs. ‘Pure’, so you can taste this beautiful sea fruit as she is. Serve with French fries, garlic…
If God shaped a part of the world all by himself – giving the rest of his staff a day off – the grounds he created on that day, would most definitely include the Hemel and Aarde Valley, near…
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is famous! Well known for her ‘Gallery of Honour’, with Rembrandt’s famous De Nachtwacht (Night watch) and many other paintings of Dutch Masters from ’the Golden Century’, like Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen and Frans Hals.…
People who never visited South Africa don’t always understand my endless love for this country. They don’t understand the hankering I feel to always go back there. “But you have seen it already, right? Why don’t you go and explore…
Avocados are hot. While 15 years ago nobody cared that much about a nice ripe avo, since a few years the avo-popularity has exploded. And the avo fans are everywhere. From fit-girls and boys who eat avocado and poached…
One of my best food experiences of the year 2016 was at restaurant ’t Perceel, located in the old beautiful Town House in a small town called Capelle, along the river IJssel near Rotterdam. Since 2010, this absolute hotspot…
Day and night simulation every 15 minutes. 930 locomotives, 274 moving cars, 6,800 square metres rental area, flight simulation Knuffingen airport, 335,000 lights, 46 computers, 215,000 figurines, 580,000 man hours, 13,000 metres track length, 1,300 square metres model area,…