Etiket: Netherlands
Margot’s houseboat is crooked due to water shortage in the Netherlands: “My front door just falls open”
Due to the ongoing drought, the Netherlands now officially has a water shortage. And Margot and her husband who live on a houseboat near Nijmegen also notice that. Due to…
how will the Netherlands fight the drought?
Houseboats in a secondary channel of the Waal near Boven-Leeuwen are on dry land due to the low water level. Cattle run in the bed where a very narrow stream…
Terraced houses most common in the Netherlands, except in Drenthe
In Drenthe, almost 30 percent of the houses are detached. This makes Drenthe, together with Friesland, the province where the most detached houses are located. Of the nearly 8 million…
The flag, even upside down, symbolizes the Netherlands
Ibtihal JadibAugust 2, 202221:10 There is much to do about the reversal of the Dutch flag. Our national tricolor is fluttering from many lampposts with the royal blue above, and…
Rembrandt in Drents Museum: ‘This painting belongs in the Netherlands’
The whole month of August it can be seen in the Drents Museum in Assen: the almost four hundred year old painting The Standard Bearer. Painted by the Dutch master…
Mark Rutte is the longest serving Prime Minister of the Netherlands with 4,311 days
Mark Rutte is today the record prime minister in the Netherlands. With 4,311 days on the counter, he beats the previous record holder Ruud Lubbers, who was Prime Minister of…
TikTok: the way for Ukrainian young people to tell about the war, also from the Netherlands
The war in Ukraine has also changed the lives of young people there forever. On the social media platform TikTok, which is very popular among teenagers and twenty-somethings, which was…
The Netherlands’ commitment to nuclear weapons: the Non-Proliferation Treaty | News item
News item | 01-08-2022 | 16:22 Since Russia’s threats with nuclear weapons (nuclear weapons), international agreements on such weapons have become even more important. In August 2022, 191 countries will…
what does it say that England won? And how is the Netherlands doing?
The English team with the European Cup.Image AFP Yesterday England won 2-1 against Germany, England’s first football title in more than fifty years. Did the best team win this tournament?…
‘The Netherlands has felt too small since I was six or seven’
John: “I get up at 7:00 am and am in the car at 7:30 am. Although I can do all my things in fifteen minutes. When I come back from…