Jun 16, 2026
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Eindhoven’s Design Revolution Awaits
Discover cutting-edge art, innovation and Dutch creativity just 80 minutes from Amsterdam’s bustling centre.
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Dear Netherlands,
Somewhere in the Netherlands right now, someone is pouring a pint of something dark — perfectly. Somewhere, a tulip field is waiting to bloom. Somewhere, a baker is sliding the first tray of stroopwafels onto the counter while the smell fills the whole street. The Dutch don’t make a fuss. They just make things the way their parents and their parents’ parents made them.
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In today’s email:
- Eindhoven Day Trip from Amsterdam: Design, Art and Dutch Innovation
- At The Café — Café ‘t Smalle — Jordaan’s Tiny Canal Hideaway
- Around The Web — Maastricht Day Trip from Amsterdam: The Complete Guide, Dutch Surnames of Limburg: Origins and Meanings, 5-Day Dutch Heritage Itinerary: Trace Your Roots Across the Netherlands + more
- From Love Netherlands — Dutch Surnames of Overijssel: Origins and Meanings
- Dutch Food You Will Love — Dutch Cheese Beyond the Tourist Shops
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Eindhoven Day Trip from Amsterdam: Design, Art and Dutch Innovation
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An Eindhoven day trip from Amsterdam is one of the most rewarding journeys you can make in the Netherlands — and one of the least obvious. Most visitors pass through en route to somewhere else, or skip it entirely for Amsterdam’s canals and Keukenhof’s tulips. That’s their loss. Eindhoven is the city where the Netherlands reinvented itself: where Philips built a global empire and then handed the city back to the artists, designers and food lovers who have made it extraordinary. Direct trains run every 15 minutes from Amsterdam Centraal, and the journey takes just 1 hour 20 minutes — making this one of the most accessible day trips in the country. Love the Netherlands? Join our free newsletter for hidden Dutch gems → inlovewithnetherlands.substack.com Getting to Eindhoven from Amsterdam Trains between Amsterdam Centraal and Eindhoven run throughout the day, departing roughly every 15…
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At The Café
Café ‘t Smalle — Jordaan’s Tiny Canal Hideaway
Café ‘t Smalle is exactly what its name says: small. It’s tucked on the Egelantiersgracht in the Jordaan, with a handful of tables inside and a tiny floating terrace on the canal that’s always full the moment the sun comes out. The building has been a café since 1786. You don’t go for the menu — you go because it’s one of the most beautiful places in Amsterdam to sit with a glass of wine and watch the boats drift past. Rain or shine, locals have been doing exactly this for two hundred and forty years.
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Around The Web
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From Love Netherlands
Your opa may have grown up near a river in the east. Your betsie may have tended sheep on the sandy Twente heathlands. If your Dutch surname ends in -ink or -huis , Overijssel is likely where your roots lie. This province in the eastern Netherlands shaped millions of family names. Those names still travel the world today. Overijssel sits between the flat western Netherlands and the German border. It has three distinct regions: Salland in the…
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Dutch Food You Will Love
Dutch Cheese Beyond the Tourist Shops
The cheese in every Amsterdam tourist-shop window is usually young and mild. Nice enough for a sandwich. But the real Dutch cheese is aged — four, six, sometimes twelve months — and it’s where the country’s centuries of dairy craft actually show up. Aged Gouda picks up tiny white crystals and a deep nutty flavour that sits somewhere between an English cheddar and an Italian Parmigiano. You have to find a farmhouse dairy, or a Friday market stall in Alkmaar, or the kind of small family shop that closes at lunchtime for 90 minutes and nobody complains.
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