Sep 21 2011
A common joke or idea can become a revolutionary one. This is the case of Thijs Zonneveld, a dutch journalist, who said that building the first artificial mountain in Holland would keep the citizens home in their country instead of traveling to France or Italy in search of a slope to ski on in winter. [...]
Sep 10 2009
Amsterdam has become the famous town of coffee shops and space cakes. But what is it all about? These coffee shops are not the same thing with the common cafés and have appeared in the capital of Holland since the 70′s, when there was made a clear distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs. Hookers and [...]
Aug 23 2009
For many years, the Dutch struggled to defeat the powerful water taking control of their lives. This special relation with the water could be very well seen in the domains of agriculture and transportation. But, on the other side, the crops were easily flooded. The strategy to eliminate this water was to collect it, contain [...]
