Aug 16, 2026
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Where the Netherlands Finally Gets
Where the Netherlands Finally Gets Some Hills: The Complete Guide to South Limburg Marl caves, a ruined medieval castle, vineyard-draped slopes and a hilltop where three countries…
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Dear Netherlands,
The first thing you notice when you arrive in the Netherlands is how much of it is water. The second thing is how comfortable the Dutch are with it. They cycle past canals, they eat herring leaning over the side of a railing, they build cities below sea level and make them look effortless. It’s the quiet confidence of a country that knows exactly what it is.
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Valkenburg Castle ruin overlooking the town of Valkenburg aan de Geul, South Limburg.…
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In today’s email:
- Where the Netherlands Finally Gets Some Hills: The Complete Guide to South Limburg
- At The Café — Café Karpershoek — Amsterdam’s Oldest Café, Right by the Station
- Around The Web — Tracing Your Dutch-Indonesian Roots: A Heritage Guide for the Indo Diaspora, Maastricht, Netherlands: The Complete Visitor’s Guide (2026), Best Time to Visit the Netherlands: A Month-by-Month Guide (2026) + more
- From Love Netherlands — Discover Your South Holland Roots: Heritage, Diaspora, and Family History
- Dutch Food You Will Love — Poffertjes — The Tiny Pancakes Sold From Copper Pans
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Where the Netherlands Finally Gets Some Hills: The Complete Guide to South Limburg
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Where the Netherlands Finally Gets Some Hills: The Complete Guide to South Limburg Marl caves, a ruined medieval castle, vineyard-draped slopes and a hilltop where three countries shake hands — South Limburg is the Netherlands as you never expected it. An introduction to South Limburg Pull up a map of the Netherlands and your eye is drawn north and west: the great delta cities, the tulip fields, the flat horizon stretching all the way to the sea. But trace your finger to the very bottom of the country, where it tapers to a narrow finger of land squeezed between Belgium and Germany, and you find something the rest of the Netherlands simply cannot offer. The land rises. Hedgerows line sunken lanes. Orchards cling to hillsides. A ruined castle sits on a wooded ridge above a valley carved by a proper, tumbling river. This is South Limburg — the Heuvelland, the hill country — and it occupies…
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At The Café
Café Karpershoek — Amsterdam’s Oldest Café, Right by the Station
Café Karpershoek opened in 1606 — older than Café Hoppe, older than the Westerkerk, older than most things in Amsterdam that are still standing. It’s a small brown café two minutes from Centraal Station, easy to miss in the rush of arriving travellers. The floor is sand, scattered fresh every morning the way every Dutch tavern used to do it. The walls are nicotine-stained from before the smoking ban and lined with antique tin signs. It’s where you go for your first beer in Amsterdam if you want to start the way the city started.
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Around The Web
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From Love Netherlands
Your family may have come from South Holland. You might not know it yet. South Holland is the most populous province in the Netherlands. It holds Rotterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Delft, and Dordrecht. For three centuries, it was also the place most Dutch emigrants called home before they left. If you have Dutch roots in South Africa, America, or Indonesia, there is a good chance your story begins in South Holland. This guide will help you find it.…
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Dutch Food You Will Love
Poffertjes — The Tiny Pancakes Sold From Copper Pans
Poffertjes are small, fluffy yeasted pancakes made on cast-iron pans with little round dimples, dusted with icing sugar and topped with a knob of butter. You eat them with a wooden fork from a paper plate, ten or twelve at a time, while standing at a stall on the street or sitting in a market square. They appear at every Dutch outdoor festival from spring to Christmas markets, and the smell of butter and sugar drifting across a town square is one of the most reliable cues that you’ve found a real local event rather than a tourist set-piece. A poffertjes pan can hold over forty at once — it takes about three minutes to fill a plate.
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