During our stay in the Netherlands this month, we got the opportunity to make a day trip to Amsterdam and visit the Amsterdam Light Festival. I had not been in Amsterdam for years: in summer I thought it would be too crowded and I could never guess that the city could also be attractive in […]
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UNDER DUTCH SKIES
Although I have been living in Montenegro for almost five decades, at least once a year I visit my home country, the Netherlands. I must admit that my feelings towards these trips are rather ambivalent. On the one hand, it’s always a pleasure to visit relatives and friends. I also like to do some shopping […]
ROTTERDAM: THE DUTCH CAPITAL OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
I had not visited Rotterdam since my childhood, but when my cousin invited us during our stay in the Netherlands to make a walking tour through this big and modern city, I was quite excited. The fact that Rotterdam was almost completely destroyed in the first days of World War II made it much easier […]
MONTENEGRO AT THE UTRECHT HOLIDAY FAIR
For the first time since 2011, the National Tourism Organization of Montenegro has participated in the Utrecht Holiday Fair (Vakantiebeurs), the most important annual holiday event in the Netherlands. There were several reasons for this decision. So far, the lack of direct flights between Amsterdam/Brussels and Montenegro has been a handicap for Dutch tourists. This […]
A WEEKEND ON THE ISLAND OF TEXEL, HOLLAND
During our stay in Holland in September, we were lucky to enjoy a real Indian summer with sunny weather and temperatures around 20 degrees Centigrade. My cousin’s invitation to spend a weekend on the island of Texel was thus accepted with great pleasure. Honestly speaking, I am particularly fond of wild and untouched mountain […]
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AMSTERDAM: NEWS FROM THE BIKING AND HIKING FAIR 2015
We are just back from the annual Biking and Hiking Fair (Fiets- en Wandelbeurs) in Amsterdam. Full of impressions, of course. Also this year, almost 20,000 nature lovers visited the two-day event. Yes, a very special kind of visitors indeed – all of them passionate hikers and/or bikers, most of them dressed in typical […]
BACK TO MY ROOTS: BUNSCHOTEN-SPAKENBURG
Each time when I am in the Netherlands, I visit Bunschoten, the village where my father was born. The history of this village, situated in the central part of Holland, dates back to the 12th century. Bunschoten was a village of well-off farmers, while the nearby village of Spakenburg flourished by fishing and trading. Its […]
PRESERVE YOUR TRADITIONAL VALUES!
Guest blog by Paul Wennekes It’s stormy in the Netherlands. Foreigners who have settled there are taking over the helm. They are no longer foreigners, as they have got the title ‘co-nationals’. That’s okay, isn’t it? Yes! They have got the same rights. But … they want more! They want to transform Holland into […]
EASTER IN HOLLAND
This year I had the opportunity to spend Easter in Holland, my home country. Of course, I did not know that it would be the coldest Easter since one hundred years! An icy east wind and temperatures below zero made it almost impossible to go out. The lakes and canals were covered with ice and […]
A NOSTALGIC VISIT TO AMERSFOORT – HOLLAND
During my stay in Holland, I also visited Amersfoort, the town where I was born. Since my emigration in 1967, Amersfoort has expanded from 75,000 to 150,000 inhabitants, but the old medieval center (the place got its town charter in 1259) has remained the same. It represents a popular tourist attraction, as it is full […]