The long summer evenings of hiking in Norwegian mountains are long gone, winter has settled into Amsterdam with a cold, biting wind that makes it easy to sit inside, research and write on a new book.
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This blogpost has felt like a Fata Morgana. Whenever I thought I had the start of an idea it lured me closer and closer, but then dissipated into a heavy hot July air, leaving me sweaty and tired
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As the summer festival season is heating up in Amsterdam, thousands flock into the city in a feverish frenzy, spoiled for choice at any given weekend. Party lovers take over the city, its canals and parks
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If you happen to have arrived in the Netherlands by plane into Schiphol airport, you actually landed at about 4m below sea level! The fact that you did not get cold and wet feet
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Arguably no other immigrant has been as successful in the Netherlands as the tulip. It has become the flower associated with the country. It loves those sandy
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