Tag: netherlands
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Donner Books, Rotterdam
Another bookstore … this time in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This one barely survived. Donner is located on Coolsingel, in a former bank building, all public areas on one floor. This bookstore and the pride of Rotterdam was swallowed up by a big chain store that unfortunately went bankrupt in 2014. The Top 10 fictions and…
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Our trips 2017, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition of this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2017. Here are the places we visited in the first half. As you will see, we…
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Our trips 2017, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2018. It is a tradition of this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Overall, we traveled less in 2017 than 2016, at least in terms of distance traveled. We did not leave Europe after our…
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Scheveningen Beach, The Netherlands
Scheveningen Beach (Strandweg) is Holland’s most famous seaside resort. And being only 15 minutes from the center of The Hague (Den Haag), it is being used year around by residents and visitors. The beach faces the North Sea (which is generally not known for fine weather). I imagine it must be quite a change from day…
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Escher in het paleis, Den Haag
I(Chris) was visiting The Hague, Holland – in May 2017 and spent a few hours to see the Escher in Het Palais. The semi-permanent exhibition is held in the former Winter palace of Queen Mother Emma of the Netherlands – Lange Voorhout Palace, which was built in the 1700’s. The regular exhibition features fantastic, mathematics-inspired…
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Airport hotels
In December last year (2011), I had two very short business trips each involving a stay at an airport hotel – here is the scenery or the lack thereof at my hotels. The first was in Amsterdam and our conference host chose this Park Plaza as a venue. Although it is supposed to be an…