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 favour […]
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
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 engineering […]
Categories: All Countries, Netherlands
Germany is the richest and most populous country in Europe, 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 that stretches from […]
Categories: All Countries, Germany
