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Best Places to Enjoy Spring in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Mar 8, 2025 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 1

The sun is shining in Amsterdam and the city wakes up from the long winter sleep. We’ve been...

Stop and Smell the Flowers: Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, One of the Oldest Botanical Gardens in the World

by Dana Marin | Jul 19, 2024 | All Photos, Nature | 0

One of the things I like best about Amsterdam is the fact that it’s such a green city! The...

Three Urban Gardens You Should Visit in Breda

by Dana Marin | Jun 22, 2022 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

Guest post by Mickey Gast I’m curious, what do you always look for when you travel to a new...

Discover the Hidden Oases of Zutphen: the Hofjes

by Dana Marin | May 9, 2022 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

One thing I like to do in every Dutch city I visit is to search for the hofjes. Hofjes are...

Hollyhock, the Queen of Midsummer

by Dana Marin | Jul 15, 2021 | All Photos, Nature, Photo essays | 0

Hollyhocks, these tall plants with crêpe paper petals and sturdy stems and leaves, are the queens...

Amsterdam Gardens. Spend the Summer Surrounded by Flowers

by Dana Marin | Jul 11, 2021 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

If you search for “Amsterdam gardens” in a browser, you’ll find many results...

Visit the Dutch Tulip Fields: a Complete Guide

by Dana Marin | Mar 15, 2021 | All Photos, The Netherlands | 0

Tulips: the iconic flowers of the Netherlands, fascinated people since they were first introduced...

The Green City: Open Garden Days Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Jul 6, 2019 | All Photos, Nature | 0

Open Tuinen Dagen, or Open Garden Days event takes place every year, in June. During those days,...

Nature and the City: Lynn from Urban Herbology

by Dana Marin | Mar 27, 2019 | All Photos, People and Stories | 1

Lynn Shore is one of the people I’ve met since moving to the Netherlands who had a...

Nine Places in Amsterdam That Any Aspiring Gardener Should Know About

by Dana Marin | Jun 27, 2018 | All Photos, Lifestyle, Nature | 0

If you love plants and gardening, and you live in Amsterdam, then you are in the right place! This city is welcoming you with all its little gardens, flower markets, flower shops and urban gardening projects. One of the first...

Green Spot in Amsterdam: Hortus Botanicus

by Dana Marin | May 8, 2018 | All Photos, Nature | 0

Hortus Botanicus is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, founded in 1638 by the city to serve as an herb garden for doctors and apothecaries. Nowadays it serves only as a recreational and educational garden,...

Visiting the Fairy-Tale Village of Giethoorn

by Dana Marin | Jun 13, 2017 | All Photos, City Guides, The Netherlands | 0

If Amsterdam is “the Venice of the North”, then Giethoorn is “the Venice of the Netherlands” – when there are a lot of canals, there are a lot of little Venices as well. This amazing little village, situated in the northeastern...

Beautiful rainy day in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Jun 3, 2017 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

A photo and video essay about a beautiful rainy day in Haarlemmerbuurt,...

Fantasy Festival: Elfia Haarzuilens 2017

by Dana Marin | May 12, 2017 | All Photos, Culture and Events | 2

I’ve wanted to go to the Elfia festival since I first heard about it a couple of years ago. For various reasons, I didn’t manage to go until this year. Elfia is a fantasy themed festival, where people come...