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What else would you leave behind when closing down a factory that clearly was rolling steel plate? A crane with magnetic grabs. Because...

This is the Polarcus Nadia, an oceanographic ship currently laid up at Amsterdam. That weird bow - roughly the reverse of the shape the ...

This is what a suburban railway station should look like. Notice that the track and the trackside are clear of weeds. Nor has it any litt...

  Like I said: I like beaches. And I didn't have two deserts: the pannacotta looked delicious and I...

Spent the weekend over in the Netherlands, and have been Python-ing again. This was where I went after arriving at Schipol. When I arrive...

Utrecht has a university, where Nobel Prizewinner Gerard t’Hooft is a professor, and a number of parks and canals which make a very pleasan...

The Netherlands is about canals. These are not cute, narrow English canals with houseboats that used to carry a few tons of china clay, salt...

Lunch at the Cafe American on the Liedesplein, then to the Art Unlimited postcard shop on the Liedestraat, just by the bridge over the Prins...

The first time we tried to visit the Rijksmuseum last year, soon after it reopened, the queues were up the stairs and along the block. We pa...