Netherlands

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  May 2, 2024

  Tulipmania

  Today is all about tulips and Dutch heritage! What is tulipmania? Tulip mania  was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative…

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  March 23, 2024

  The bicycle is always right

  We hit the ground running as soon as we got to Amsterdam. Coming from La Trappe, we had a 5:15PM time slot at Heineken. (We bought the Go City pass to visit a lot of different attractions in the city since it was our first time.) Now, we’ve done our share of big brewery/distillery tours…