Everything will become more expensive as of January 1, 2025, including train travel. On average by 6,18%, but with significant differences per product. If your employer reimburses your commuting costs 100%, then there is nothing to worry about....
Lize Spit is writing the 2023 Book Week gift and Raoul de Jong the 2023 Book Week essay, it was announced by the Foundation for Collective Promotion of the Dutch Book (CPNB). The 88th Book Week, the traditional celebration of readers in bookstores and libraries, takes place from...
On June 2, 1122, it was 900 years since Utrecht was granted city rights. The celebratory program was created and executed by the residents themselves starting June 2, 2022. Utrechters have organized activities centered on the Utrecht of today, the past, and the...
Approximately 300.000 people in the Netherlands have a visual impairment. Over 200.000 are severely visually impaired, of whom about 50.000 are blind. October 15 is International White Cane Day. The white cane symbolizes blindness and visual impairment. It warns...
After De Rijp/Amstelveen (2014), Dordrecht (2015), Zwolle (2016), Tilburg (2017), and Groningen (2018), it is Amersfoort's turn. On Saturday, April 27, King Willem-Alexander will celebrate his 52nd birthday together with Queen Máxima and the rest of the Royal Family...
It makes perfect sense, and yet we don't do it as often anymore. Reading a book during a train journey, when you are traveling for hours to your destination. Reading newspapers and books were activities of the past. Now you only see...
For the 84th time, the CPNB is organizing the Book Week with the theme 'The Mother, the Woman'. This theme, with the chosen male writers Jan Siebelink (Book Week gift) and Murat Isik (Book Week essay), caused a great deal of commotion, especially among female authors. Women on...
Once the last bus collection by the PTT had taken place, anyone who still wished to quickly send a letter could hand it in at the (baggage) counter of a station. Handing letters onto trains became possible from May 15, 1927. The...
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