This morning very early I went for my daily walk with the dogs, no sun out yet and it was still -13 degrees! COLD! It has been freezing for over a week now and all over The Netherlands people are skating. In Friesland, all the way up north where I live, it looks like this… [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Typical Dutch'
Ice skating in The Netherlands
February 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life, Nature, Typical Dutch, Walking the Dogs
Tags:frozen canals·ice scating·scating in Amsterdam·Typical Dutch·winter in Holland
Beautiful graphics
November 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Art
Recently I discovered a new artist (new to me that is) she lives and works nearby here in Groningen, The Netherlands and she makes wonderful graphics … Sietske Bosma graduated in 2007 at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, The Netherlands. She began school at her fiftieth and exchanged her birthplace Heerenveen for Groningen, a city [...]
Contemporary, festive and sophisticated
October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Design
New in the online store of Wannekes is the collection of these modern contemporary tablecloths. The beautuful damask tablecloth are woven in the Dutch Textile museum and are designed by Dutch designers like Studio Job, Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius, Kiki van Eijk, Christien Meindertsma, Scholten & Baijings, Ineke Hans and more. Anne- Marie Jetten “Red [...]
Tags:Dutch design·Hella Jongerius·Jurgen Bey·Kiki van Eijk·Nederlands ontwerp·Studio Job·tafelkleden·Typical Dutch·Wannekes
Once upon a time…
September 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life, Once upon a time..., Typical Dutch
Once up on a time I lived in a windmill… A long time ago we lived for a few years in the U.S.A. When we came back we had to make up our minds where to live in Holland. We bought a car and drove around our country for a few weeks to look at [...]
Typical Dutch?
January 4th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Architecture, Typical Dutch, Uncategorized
This hotel in Zaandam is a design by WAM Architects. It appears to be a heap of Dutch, traditional wooden houses. I don’t know what to think about it, do you? The twelve-story square hotel tower is situated in the centre of Zaandam, Holland. The hotel facade is a monumental accumulation and interpretation of different [...]
