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Street art tour in Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Your Dutch Guide
Art Culture

A street art tour in Rotterdam

A couple of Dutch cities lead the way in street art, and Rotterdam is one of them. A street art tour takes you along the highlights of the city, as well as some nice lesser known neighbourhoods and hotspots…

De Stijl: spot Dutch design on Dutch streets (photy by Maurice Haak & Jenny Audring) | Your Dutch Guide
Art Culture

De Stijl: spot Dutch design on Dutch streets

If you are visiting The Netherlands this year and venturing outside of Amsterdam (which I can only highly recommend) you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by blocks in yellow, blue and red. That’s right: we are celebrating 100 years of…

Day trip from Amsterdam: Muiden | Your Dutch Guide
Culture Day trips

Day trip from Amsterdam: Muiden

If you’re visiting The Netherlands, staying in Amsterdam and thinking about taking a day trip. I can highly recommend going to Muiden for the day. This laid back Dutch town hasn’t been discovered by the tour bus crowds yet…

Summer festivals The Netherlands. De Parade, Utrecht (photo by Joep van Aert) | Your Dutch Guide
Culture

5 summer festivals not to miss in The Netherlands

Summer is here! Since my husband and I don’t have to take our summer vacation during school holidays, we are free to enjoy summer in The Netherlands. And that means: endless cycling trips, discovering new villages, city hotspots and…

Visit Amersfoort: De Nieuwe Stad, street art | Your Duch Guide
Culture Food

Visit Amersfoort: explore De Nieuwe Stad

To visit Amersfoort on a Saturday afternoon is like a breath of fresh air, to me. Utrecht get quite busy on weekends, with people crowding the city centre for their weekly shopping or getting together with friends. Only 20…

Mondriaan to Dutch design (photo by: Maurice Haak & Jenny Audring) | Your Dutch Guide
Art Culture

De Stijl: celebrating 100 years of Dutch design

9 places to see the best examples of The Stijl in The Netherlands Squares and rectangles in yellow, blue and red. Straight lines and predominant use of black and white. Mondriaan’s work Victory Boogie Woogie probably springs to mind,…