Aug 20, 2026
|
Dutch-Indonesian Heritage Across Netherlands
Discover archives and sites that honour your Indo family story.
|
|
Love Netherlands
|
|
Dear Netherlands,
Amsterdam in April has a particular kind of quiet. The tulips are out in the park. The café terraces are full by ten. Somewhere in the Jordaan a church bell is telling the hour, and a barge is gliding past, and a child is learning to cycle without training wheels. This is the version of the Netherlands you came for.
|
|
Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe free and never miss an edition →
|
|
If the daily newsletter brings you closer to the Netherlands, our Sunday Premium Edition takes you deeper into it. Every Sunday you’ll receive travel deep dives, curated itineraries, regional stories, and hidden gems you won’t find anywhere else.
Upgrade for less than the price of a pint and see the Netherlands in a completely new way.
|
Photo via Love Netherlands
|
In today’s email:
- Tracing Your Dutch-Indonesian Roots: A Heritage Guide for the Indo Diaspora
- At The Café — Café Papeneiland — The Café on the Corner Bill Clinton Loved
- Around The Web — Best Time to Visit the Netherlands: A Month-by-Month Guide (2026), Discover Your North Holland Roots: Heritage, Diaspora, and Family History, Discover Your Gelderland Roots: Heritage, Diaspora, and Family History + more
- From Love Netherlands — Maastricht, Netherlands: The Complete Visitor’s Guide (2026)
- Dutch Food You Will Love — Kroket — The Older, Stranger Cousin of Bitterballen
|
Tracing Your Dutch-Indonesian Roots: A Heritage Guide for the Indo Diaspora
👉 Read the full story
Your opa spoke Dutch at home. Your grandmother cooked rijsttafel every Sunday. You grew up hearing stories about a place across the ocean. Now you want to find out more about where your family really came from. If you have Dutch-Indonesian roots, you are part of a large and proud community. Millions of people around the world share this heritage. Many are now searching for their family history. The good news is that the Netherlands holds many of the answers. Who Are the Indo Community? The Indo community has a long and complex history. “Indo” refers to people of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent. It also refers to Dutch people born in the former Dutch East Indies. Today, there are around 600,000 people of Indo heritage living in the Netherlands. Millions more live in Australia, the United States, Canada, and South Africa. The Dutch East Indies is now known as Indonesia. It was a Dutch…
👉 Read the full story
Have you been there? Do you have a memory of this corner of the Netherlands? Hit reply and tell us — we’d love to hear your story.
|
|
“Want deep dives into the Netherlands every Sunday? Our Premium readers already have their next edition waiting.”
|
At The Café
Café Papeneiland — The Café on the Corner Bill Clinton Loved
Café Papeneiland sits at the corner of the Prinsengracht and the Brouwersgracht, in a 17th-century building so charmingly crooked that the Delft tiles inside lean slightly to one side. It’s been a café since 1642. Bill Clinton stopped in once, ate a slice of apple pie, and the café has never quite let it go — there’s a small framed photo behind the bar. The apple pie really is the order: thick, warm, just enough cinnamon, served with whipped cream that doesn’t come from a can. Sit by the window upstairs and watch the canal boats turn the corner below.
👉 Visit the café
|
Around The Web
|
From Love Netherlands
Maastricht stands apart from every other city in the Netherlands. Tucked into the country’s southern tip, squeezed between Belgium and Germany, it has more Roman ruins than Amsterdam, more Michelin stars per resident than almost anywhere else in the country, and a carnival so wild it shuts the city for three days every February. If you have been treating the Netherlands as a quick Amsterdam weekend, Maastricht will quietly make you rethink that…
👉 Read the full story
|
Photo via Love Netherlands
|
Dutch Food You Will Love
Kroket — The Older, Stranger Cousin of Bitterballen
A kroket is a finger-shaped roll of crumbed and deep-fried beef ragout — the same filling as bitterballen, but in a single satisfying portion the size of a thick chip. You eat it slid into a soft white roll with a smear of mustard, called a broodje kroket, and it’s the Dutch lunch counter’s defining order. The most famous come from automat-style FEBO walls in Amsterdam, where you slot a few coins in and pull a hot kroket out of a glass-fronted cabinet. There’s no shame in it — half the city has eaten one before a tram home.
👉 Read the full story
|
|
Know Someone Who Loves the Netherlands?
If you’re enjoying this letter, the best thing you could do is forward it to one friend who’d love the Netherlands too. This newsletter grows by word of mouth alone — every single subscriber came from someone sending it to someone else. Thank you for being one of the first.
|
|
Our daily newsletter is free and always will be. But for less than the price of a pint, you can upgrade to our Sunday Premium Edition, which gives you access to our travel deep dives, curated itineraries, and regional stories. Consider buying us a stroopwafel — it’s the Dutch way to say thank you.
|
Also From Our Family
Love Ireland too? Over 64,000 readers wake up each morning to the Love Ireland newsletter — loveireland.substack.com
Or Scotland? Join 43,000 Scotland lovers — lovescotland.substack.com
|
|
You’re reading Love Netherlands — a free letter about canal towns, hidden villages, and Dutch stories, delivered Monday to Friday.
inlovewithnetherlands.com ·
Unsubscribe
© 2026 Love Netherlands · Part of the Love To Visit LLC family
|
|
