When you see the advertisements and the decorations on the streets and in the shops, the emphasis is on Christmas and not on the Sinterklaas celebration. Do you still celebrate Sinterklaas with your (grand)children or have you already put up the Christmas tree...
Already more than 190.000 visitors since the opening on September 21, 2024. The 'DIOR - A New Look' exhibition has been extended through March 2, 2025, due to overwhelming success. So hurry this week. There are queues for the...
A 'must-see' exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam (opposite the canal boat jetties). This exhibition ranks among my Top 5 exhibitions of 2024 and is thematically organized around the subject 'Nature Under Pressure'. Extinct animals are coming...
If you visit Haarlem for a 'day out' and you haven't seen the Teylers Museum, then you haven't seen Haarlem. The 'Vogelpracht' exhibition is on view until May 29, 2022. Says 'The Birds of America' by John...
On November 29, we celebrate Saint Pancake Day. You most likely didn't know that. I can imagine you thinking: “Who came up with that?” Then you should read on, and if you do, I suspect that you...
What did we all stand and watch for 13 hours on April 1, 2021? Was it a theatrical performance, a reckoning, a resurrection, or the start of new negotiations for a new cabinet? Did you watch...
The Soviet Union amazed the world on Nov. 3, 1957, with the launch of the small satellite Sputnik 2. On board was a small dog, Laika, the first animal to actually orbit Earth. Unfortunately Laika was doomed to die during...
Who doesn't know Neil Armstrong's famous quote: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind'? Did you watch the moon landing live on your black-and-white TV on July 20, 1969? We briefly follow the earlier flights...
In the early morning of Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the invasion of the beaches of Normandy began. It was the start of the end of the Second World War. How did this operation come about? How did the cooperation between the Allies proceed?...
An extremely popular event is held each year in the period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in The Netherlands. A radio station, NPO Radio 2, hosts a week-long programme playing what listeners vote to be the best 2,000...
Flowers, high-quality plastics, and natural gas are our most important export products according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS). With a share of 33%, the tulip has been the most exported flower bulb for years. In 2017, over two billion tulips were exported worldwide. But where does the...
In the 1970s, I had the opportunity to visit Tanzania. Quite an undertaking, because the country was fairly socialist at the time and therefore not at all inclined to please tourists...
Elvis Presley is considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. He has many nicknames: The King of Rock and Roll, The King, Elvis the Pelvis, or the Memphis Flash. In 2017, the Elvis revival is back in full force...
In many warm countries the colourful shirts on the stamps below are common attire for men. Many other men living in cooler climes may have one or two of these spectacularly-decorated items of clothing sitting in their wardrobes, waiting for...
Following the recently published Freddie Mercury article and having just heard the Queen song 'Bicycle Race' on the radio, I sought out some Bicycle-themed stamps. And there are hundreds! Without doubt one of man's greatest inventions, it is estimated that...
Fans of the band Queen might light a candle and commemorate singer Freddie Mercury today, as he would have turned 70. Mercury was born on September 5, 1946, in Stonetown (then Zanzibar) as Farrokh Bulsara. He...
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