Category: Stories
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The Dutch Island Where Sheep Outnumber People — and That’s the Point
Texel is a Dutch island of wide skies, famous sheep, and a pace of life the mainland forgot — plus get weekly Netherlands stories free in our newsletter.
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What Is Wadlopen? The Dutch Tradition of Walking the Seabed
What is wadlopen? Every summer, thousands walk across the Wadden Sea seabed at low tide to reach remote Wadden Islands. Here’s what to know — plus get weekly Netherlands stories free in our newsletter.
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The Jordaan — The Amsterdam Neighbourhood Tourists Walk Straight Past
Image: Shutterstock Most first-time visitors to Amsterdam walk right through the Jordaan without realising they’re in it. They’re looking for the Anne Frank House, or the Red Light District, or a coffee shop — and the Jordaan, which is quieter and smaller and doesn’t announce itself, slides past in a blur of crooked gables and…
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Giethoorn — The Dutch Village With No Roads
Image: Shutterstock There’s a village in the north of the Netherlands where nobody has ever driven to the shop for milk. Not because it’s remote, exactly — it’s only a two-hour drive from Amsterdam — but because Giethoorn was built on water, and most of its houses can only be reached by boat or by…
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A Day in Maastricht — The Dutch City That Feels Like Belgium
Image: Shutterstock Maastricht is technically in the Netherlands, but it doesn’t quite feel like it. Tucked into the far south of the country, pressed up against Belgium on one side and Germany on the other, it has more in common with Liège or Cologne than with Amsterdam. The architecture is older, the cafés more French,…