Donna Meyer

If you can’t visit the Netherlands in spring and see the flowers in all their blooming glory, the Tulip Museum is the next best thing. The famous Keukenhof Garden, at Lisse, is one of the world’s great springtime parks, and most especially for bulb flowers—daffodils, hyacinths, and of course, tulips. The Glory of the Tulip Fields, Netherlands, in Spring You’ve seen the flowers, their pretty cups open to the sun, in singles, in groups in the parks, and in great planted swathes at Keukenhof. When the flowers bloom, they are only left to flower for a short time before being “topped,” i.e. the flower heads are cut off, because it is the bulb, not the flower, that is the farmer’s end product.

After spending an afternoon tasting typical Amsterdam Dutch food in the city’s atmospheric old neighborhood and on the city’s wonderful canals, I can say without equivocation that Eating Europe’s Amsterdam food tour makes for a lekker ervaring: a delicious experience all around. I joined the four-hour Jordaan and Canals Food Tour, and I easily decided that for visitors, it was one of the best things to do in Amsterdam. I can’t recommend enough this experience of tasting the city with an Eating Amsterdam food tour with Eating Europe. Eating Europe’s Amsterdam Food Tour

You just did not say no to the world’s greatest actress, not to mention one of your firm’s best customers, as they had been printing Bernhardt’s posters for some time. It gives a great overview of the artist’s life and work, and is the perfect introduction, especially if you are not familiar with the breadth of his work. He was very much a Slavic nationalist, and the work he created at this time shows a distinct difference from the Paris posters. Once you have seen the astonishing brilliance and breadth of his work here, it’s amusing to learn that in 1878, when the budding young artist was 18 years old and applied to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he was rejected.

I already knew I hated the taste of anise, so I was steering well clear of all things licorice when, while browsing the shelves of a grocery store in Stockholm, I saw something I had never imagined would exist—licorice flavored potato chips. The Tiny Grocery Shops of Kathmandu, Nepal, by Michelle from Full Time Explorer Being an American, I’m used to going to the grocery store, buying a cart full of food, then heading home until next week. If you’re browsing the deli and dairy sections at a grocery store on the Caribbean island of Aruba, you’ll quickly notice that the aisles are packed with a vast assortment of Dutch goods including drop (licorice), cold cuts, and cheeses. While the glossy red rounds of Edam cheese you’ll see are a key ingredient in Aruba and Curacao’s national dish of Keshi Yena (a rind of Edam cheese stuffed with spiced meat), one of the most popular cheeses in grocery stores in Aruba is Old Amsterdam Aged Gouda Cheese.