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Our neighborhood is filled with buildings that are decorated with art and architectural details. The Concertgebouw was built in an open field, and the entire neighborhood...

Me, Izzy, and the I Amsterdam sign. Taken by Ray, my new California friend. Dutch men do not wear baseball-type hats. Only kids. In fact, I have not seen them wear any ki...

Given the number of visitors here, there could be a lot more of this sort of thing. But the tourist sites are thoroughly integrated into the city so there are no concentr...

Utrecht was, according to Wikipedia, founded in 65 C.E. It has buildings still standing from the early second century. For some reason, many of us find the wear and tear...

My new friends from California, Ray and Susan, let me photograph them, and I let them photograph me and Izzy, but it was mainly Izzy that they were after. Many visitors h...

We got a free potato dinner on Museumplien, where we ate with thousands of others at picnic tables. The May 4 photo shows two people we talked with. Everyone has been fri...

Until today, I never saw any reason for a king or queen. Today is Remembrance Day, when people recall the deaths and suffering of World War II and and Dutch people who di...

I blamed a man for letting his dog attack Izzy. I saw him again today, once again at the entrance to Vondel Park. He did not see me. He was moving slowly, shuffling actua...

Thanks Mendel for starting our journey to understanding heredity. One of my Dutch language classmates, a woman from South Korea, noticed that flowers here, the blooms the...

Our neighborhood is mostly what we call row houses. The fronts generally have about a foot of dirt between the building and the sidewalk. Yet every house has that piece o...

A lot of drinking happens on Koningsdag, a holiday that has some resemblance to the 4th of July. It is a patriotic day and is universally observed in Nederland. But Vonde...

For a few euro, you can try to hit a kid in the face with a raw egg. I don't get it, but it seemed quite popular and we saw several places where that piece of fun was off...

Do you wonder if men are advantaged compared to women in Dutch life? I do not know the answer to that question. But men have one advantage, to use the pissoirs in Vondel.

Karel Appel studied at the Rijksmuseum school, that sanctuary for the great paintings of the golden era. He was a prodigy. So where did this come from? You might think yo...