Are you vacationing in Aspendam?

Did you ever take a holiday in Amsterdam to get to the legal — legal ish — marijuana? Are vacations like that now within a car's drive ...

Aerial photographs of Dutch tulip fields.

Nice!

Dutch prostitute twins... in their old age.

It's a new documentary movie: "You did the work, you've been a whore," [says Louise]. "You'll never get rid of th...

"If your Big Mac is going to cost about $100 and your Bug Mac is going to cost only $4, people will change to a Bug Mac."

Says Arnold van Huis, the world's biggest expert on entomophagy (the eating of insects). He believes the rising price of meat will help ...

The sleek modernity of train travel in Europe — now, with pee bags.

"Dutch National Railways is introducing emergency plastic bags for passengers to urinate in as part of its first-aid provision on some ...

"She remembered sunbathing topless on her balcony in the 1980s. 'It’s inconceivable now,' she said."

"'Now my next-door neighbor doesn’t even greet me in the hallway, he can’t look at me, and it’s been 28 years'... Then she laug...

"Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech."

"The case was seen by some as a test of free speech in a country which has a long tradition of tolerance and blunt talk, but where oppo...

"The freedom of expression of at least 1.5 million people is standing trial together with me."

Says Geert Wilders, on trial in the Netherlands for writing, among other things: "I've had enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: ...

"What’s an externality?"

"My friends tell me that in the Vondelpark, a delightful reserve in central Amsterdam, it is illegal to let your dog off a leash. But ...

Should the Burqa -- and other face coverings -- be banned?

That's the proposal in the Netherlands: [Immigration Minister Rita] Verdonk insisted the burqa was not an acceptable part of public life...

Should schools do more to accommodate parents with traditional values?

This is an interesting subject (raised by a lawsuit that seems destined to fail): At the center of a federal lawsuit filed last week by two...

Poets for the unmourned dead... with a political agenda.

An Amsterdam project: Frank Starik leads a group of Amsterdam poets engaged in a highly unusual civic project -- attending the funerals of t...

Twins rights.

Schools often have the policy of breaking up twins (and triplets, etc.), putting them in different classrooms. The schools think separating...

"We are used to seeing ourselves as a permissive and open society on the side of the good..."

"... and it is shocking to see Danes as objects of hate." Here is an excellent article about the "identity crisis" Dane...

"I'm voting to dare these militants, to have a strong parliament and government that would restrain these outlaws."

Says one expatriate Iraqi voting today in Jordan. They are also voting in Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, G...

The preserved body of a sparrow shot for knocking over 23,000 dominoes...

Will be displayed -- on top of a box of dominoes -- in Rotterdam's Natural History Museum. The bird almost spoiled a televised world re...

20 countries have offered Katrina aid.

It's reported here that offers of aid have come from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Jamaic...

"Sadness."

dead starling Originally uploaded by paul van eik . "Sadness" is a "hot tag" on Flickr today, along with tags...

Justices O'Connor and Kennedy have a little something to say about the Iraqi detainees.

Gina Holland writes for AP about a meeting of international law experts that included Justices O'Connor and Kennedy as well as 28 Iraqi...

"The Weather Project" I like this Olafur Eliasson installation in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern. The NYT writes : An instan...