Netherlands – Inherit The Earth

Amsterdam: Life Cycle

The Dutch are enjoying health, wealth and quality of life. If they think bicycles are the way to go, maybe we should be listening?

“WE HAVE a saying in Dutch: ‘In de aap gelogeerd’ or ‘You slept in the monkey house’ – which means you’re in trouble, having a bit of bad luck. That comes from here.” I’m in the In’t Aepjen (In the Monkey) pub, one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam and one of only two still withContinue reading “Amsterdam: Canal Ring”

Netherlands: Dutch Masters

What makes a Vermeer is the special fall of light, the stillness of people – young women reading, sitting or standing, but always still – with the light coming from the left.