Favorite Images from Holland 2013

Last Monday’s post focused on photos from an outdoor art exhibit in the Hague city centre.  It is a week later and I can’t resist putting a few more pictures up  from life in one of my favorite countries – Holland.Breakfast of [Dutch] ChampionsFrom Los Angeles to UtrechtSo Much Green Space in the city of UtrechtArtists… Read more

In Search of Cheese

My adventure to find the mecca for cheese lovers did not start out as planned. I was staying in Utrecht in the Netherlands when I saw that there was a city named after one of my favorite cheeses, Gouda (yes, I know the city came first, but I like to think it was the other way… Read more

Photos of Volendam, Holland

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With all of their winding canals, flower-boxed brownstone homes and ever present blue and white Delft pottery, even the largest cities in the Netherlands can seem to be charming in a small town sort of way.  You may arrive in Amsterdam at their large, construction-choked train station, then shuffle past loud, garish “coffee shops” and chain… Read more