The Aalsmeer flower market near Amsterdam is the world’s largest flower auction. Around 20 million flowers are sold here every day, inside the world’s fourth largest building. Whether you like flowers, or you’re just trying to kill time during a layover at Schiphol airport, this is a fascinating place to visit. You have to get …read more >>
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport serves over 50 million passengers every year and chances are you will be one of them if you come to visit or live in the Netherlands. Since we live in Holland, we’ve passed through Schiphol several times. During those visits, we’ve discovered a few “hidden” shops and services that are handy to know …read more >>
It can be hard to find a restaurant that has tasty food and is kid friendly. The Hagedis checks both of those boxes. It’s located in the beautiful Grote Pyr; a former school on the corner of the Elandstraat. Inside, the bright and cheery restaurant serves up plates of local and organic food. There is …read more >>
One of our favourite ways to spend a day together as a family is with a visit to Het Geertje. It’s an organic farm and petting zoo located close to Leiden. It’s free to visit, open every single day of the year and our little boy loves it. There are various barns and stalls to …read more >>
The pins on this map show the places that we’ve visited in the Netherlands. Have fun exploring!
Oh, Indian food. How I do love you! Yet, it was four years before I discovered that there was a fully-stocked Indian supermarket in The Hague. Until that point we’d picked up Indian supplies at various shops but none of them had a full selection. We missed fresh paneer and curry leaves and homemade samosas. …read more >>
When the tulips start blooming, the best place to see them is at the world famous Keukenhof Gardens (open mid-March to mid-May). TIP: the Keukenhof Gardens are one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Netherlands so go early. If you can, go on a weekday because then you will avoid the weekend crowds. We’ve been there a …read more >>
For a country as small and as densely populated as the Netherlands, there are a surprising number of great places to camp. Our favourite campgrounds are small and set in forest clearings or alongside rivers. When we’re tenting, we always look for a separate field (away from camper vans). Sometimes we also rent a yurt …read more >>
When we first arrived in the Netherlands, one of our first day trips was to Haarlem and one of the first shops we stumbled across was Tromp Cheese Shop. It’s actually a chain of cheese shops and this branch is located on one of the main shopping streets as you walk from Haarlem’s train station …read more >>
Here are useful tips and resources for Dutch expats who are pregnant during their stay in the Netherlands. They’re all things we learned while preparing for the birth of our two children. First, some reassuring words: Perhaps you haven’t been here that long, and maybe you don’t speak much Dutch. At times, the system may …read more >>
