From the morbid Museum Gevangenpoort or the Prison Gate Museum, we move on to the beautiful Galerij Prins Willem V or Prince William V Gallery right next door. This was the picture gallery of Prince William V (1748 – 1806) – Prince of Orange & Stadholder of the Netherlands. He…
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Den Haag
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Museum Gevangenpoort
As my kids get older, encouraging them to visit museums with me is often greeted with a questionable expression. So, when I told my kids that we were going to visit a 600-year-old prison museum, there was a spark of enthusiasm. Museum Gevangenpoort or the Prison Gate Museum is a…
Amsterdam
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Family Six Collection
Have you heard about the Six Family? It started with Jean Six (1575–1617) and his wife Anna Wijmer (1584–1654), a well-to-do cloth merchant from France. Their son, Jan Six (1618 – 1700), became the son-in-law of Amsterdam mayor, Nicolaes Tulp, when he married Margaretha, in 1655. Jan emerged as magistrate…
Amsterdam
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Anne Frank House Museum
[Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on on 12 June 1929] Growing up on the other side of the world, I have only heard general stories about Anne Frank. In a nutshell, the context was about a young German – Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family…
Borger
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D27 Hunebed Centre
Visiting Drenthe was the last province on my list. And what is Drenthe famous for? I was told “Hunebedden” – ancient stone megaliths forming hunebeds or dolmens scattered throughout the province. Older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge! Hunebeds Once upon a time, there were these giant boulders brought here by…
Day Trips
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Schokland
Once upon a time, Schokland was an island in the Zuiderzee (Southern Sea). Hundreds of people lived here on dwelling mounds; farmers, fishermen and sea-faring men. Because of the dropping level of the land and persistent storm surges, the destructive sea continued to eat away pieces of the peninsula. Around…