I distinctly remember reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" as a child. It was one of those books that really stuck with me, probably because Anne, the narrator, wasn't so different to me - yet her life was extraordinarily different, through no fault of her own. When I visited Amsterdam I made a …
Netherlands
Dutch icons: Travel by tourist cliches, or is it real?
The Netherlands is a funny place. I mean that in the nicest possible way, but it's pretty unique for a reasonably small country that it has so many famous icons that people across the world would instantly identify as being from there: windmills, tulips, clogs and several kinds of cheeses, just to …
Picture pirouette: Flowers in the Netherlands
I've given you a peek at some of the magic of the Keukenhof Gardens before, but there's more. Much more! With a little boy whose favourite word is "flower" at the moment, I wish I could whisk him over to the Netherlands (oh, and adjust things to the right season) so he could spend a day saying …