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Welcome To Holland: All Your Favourite Dutch Cliches In One Small Town

29 April 2024

Clog making? Check. Working windmill? You bet. Gouda tasting? Step right this way. Holland has nailed just about every Dutch cliché you can imagine. That’s Holland, Michigan, in case you were wondering.

Dutch Windows – Nothing to Hide Here

11 December 2023

The Dutch are different. They drink milk at lunchtime. They eat more cheese than anyone else. And they hardly use curtains.

How the Dutch Like to Be Beside the Seaside

27 June 2023

With its 500 kilometres of coast, the Netherlands is suitable for every holiday season. Thanks to the many beach bars, you do not have to compromise on comfort.

When Einstein Stayed on the Belgian Coast

27 April 2022

The pretty beach town of De Haan in West Flanders is dotted with reminders of its most famous visitor. In 1933, the German scientist Albert Einstein stepped off the coast tram here to spend six months on the Belgian coast.

The Little Bookshop on the Corner

7 May 2021

Whenever Derek Blyth visits Amsterdam, he can't help but pop into the iconic Athenaeum Boekhandel. ‘Buying a book there is almost a religious experience.’

The Handelsbeurs in Antwerp, the World’s First Stock Exchange

16 March 2021

It’s easy to walk straight past the Handelsbeurs in Antwerp. The entrance lies at the end of a narrow lane near the city's most famous shopping street, the Meir. For three years the site was closed off for renovation work, but this stunning building where the 16th-century global economy was fired

Welcome to Utopia

9 October 2020

Utopia is not always an imaginary place. That is what Derek Blyth discovered when he entered the stunning city library of Aalst.

The Busy Beehive

15 September 2020

You might have thought big department stores had no place in future cities. Several famous names have closed down in recent years, including Barneys New York and Debenhams in London. But the Dutch department store chain De Bijenkorf is celebrating its 150th year with ambitious plans for the future.

The World According to Gerardus

24 August 2020

Derek Blyth pays tribute to the man who has shown us the way for more than four hundred years: the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator.

The Footsteps of Elsschot

17 June 2019

Derek Blyth takes you on micro adventures to L-Spots, hidden and exciting places in the Low Countries. This week he goes on a literary pilgrimage in Willem Elsschot’s Antwerp.

Home Sweet Caravan

13 May 2019

Derek Blyth takes you on micro adventures to L-Spots, hidden and exciting places in the Low Countries. This week he hits the road in a very Dutch phenomenon, the caravan.

The Ghost Village

22 April 2019

Derek Blyth takes you on micro adventures to L-Spots, hidden and exciting places in the Low Countries. This week he ends up in a deserted village that refuses to die.

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