The Netherlands

It’s been two years since I wrote a blog post. Sheesh. Well, that’s embarrassing! What has happened during this time?!? Well, in a nutshell, after I got married in the summer of 2019, I got [Read More]

Having lived in the Netherlands for six years now, I’ve travelled to quite a number of major cities here. But the towns are mostly unknown to me. As such, during the summer, we decided to [Read More]

Museum Voorlinden is a brand new contemporary art museum situated in Wassenaar in The Hague, Netherlands. I highly recommend visiting the museum by bike as it takes around 20 minutes from The Hague Central Station and [Read More]

Keukenhof in the Netherlands is known worldwide as one of the largest flower gardens on the planet. This is an extraordinary garden steeped in history. In fact, what we know about the garden stems from the [Read More]

I recently visited The Dordrechts Museum and Huis van Gijn – two museums partaking in the Glassfever Exhibition currently on in the city of Dordrecht, the Netherlands. The third venue I visited was the Het Dordts Patriciërshuis, also part [Read More]

On a recent trip to Dordrecht, I visited three different museums as part of the Glassfever Exhibition (currently on until the 25th September 2016) – an event taking the city by storm. What I loved about my [Read More]

Strandweg 1A. That’s the address of the Bunker Museum – an address in The Hague that we simply couldn’t find…”It must be here,” I muttered as we looked high and low, walking from the harbour [Read More]

This past weekend we decided to cycle from The Hague city centre to a castle I’d read about called Duivenvoorde. The castle is located in the suburb of Voorschoten just outside of the city. The cycle trip itself [Read More]

The Netherlands is well-known as the land of tulips and those who’ve travelled (even if only) to Schiphol Airport before are sure to have seen the many tulips and tulip memorabilia for sale. Having lived in the [Read More]

No one will tell you to visit Museum Bredius in The Hague. Instead they may tell you to visit the Mauritshuis instead. And that’s a real shame. Why? Because Museum Bredius is certainly a museum that [Read More]