Haarlem – historical city with charm and excellent museums | Netherlands

September 22, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

Haarlem is one of the Netherlands’ most elegant and eminently livable cities — a historic North Holland gem whose magnificent Grote Kerk (Great Church), world-class Frans Hals Museum, and beautifully preserved medieval centre make it the perfect antidote to Amsterdam’s crowds while being just 15 minutes away by train. Often overlooked by international visitors in […]

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Netherlands – a country of windmills, tulips and water canals

April 30, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

The Netherlands is far more than Amsterdam’s canals and coffee shops — it is a small, densely populated, and remarkably innovative country where windmills still turn in the polders, fields of tulips paint the spring landscape in impossible colours, and a centuries-long battle against the sea has produced some of the most sophisticated water management […]

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Germany – rich and the most populous country of the European Union

April 27, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

Germany is the richest and most populous country in the European Union — an economic powerhouse at the heart of the continent whose gifts to the world range from the printing press and the Protestant Reformation to the automobile, Bach and Beethoven, and the Christmas market, and whose landscapes are as varied as a country […]

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