All Things Holland

Ahhh May 4th, Tulip Time Festival in Holland, Michigan, what can I say about you?  Thankfully this year the Tulip Time Festival did indeed have tulips, unlike last year's StemFest.  However; in my humble opinion Tulip Time was pretty bad.  Imagine a strange assortment of vendors selling their quilted nascar blankets, overcrowded streets and restaurants, and mock indian encampments.  No modern furnature, gouda, dutch bicycles, dutch vendor food like those little pancake thingys or herrings to be found.   Surely the walk to Tulip island where the only true Dutch windmill in America resides must have been amazing?    ( de zwaan was pretty cool, but.... ) First you must pay a hefty chunk of change to enter the island after walking a couple of miles in the blazing sun.  Once there you gaze upon two rows of tulips, followed by a short jaunt to the tourist mill where you see a mildewy replica of Amsterdam and are tempted to buy a button that says "Kiss me I'm Dutch".   Being

Whoa. It's almost been a month since our last post. Sorry. Back to being regular. Here's one I've had in my emails for a while. Full Article So the thought is what do you do if your city is on the coast or below sea level? Prepare for the eventuality and either build higher or make them float. That's exactly what some of these cities have done. And obviously the Netherlands is high on that list. The article above has more pictures and detail but check out a few of these. Amsterdam - Very Futuristic with 2 levels.     Amsterdam - 75 Floating Houses clumped together (video at the link)   The rest on the link are from other areas of the world. But fitting that the Netherlands has the 2 top posts.