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Recently, regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren  was tampering with the stones of the...

May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards . Arie explained to him that his wife...

You would say: “Sure, the study of history is evidence-based and involves no politics. For this, it's called a science, is it not? It's...

In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...

Who does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the big screen in 1959? A movie in which the masculine Hollywood actor and civil...

Being on the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers, and of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ — see also the note...

Over the last few years, we have written about the tall and weird-looking people living in the twilight zone  of sea and land: the...

Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus , ‘a king who cannot read is like a crowned donkey’. Or, if you prefer the literal...

At the intersection of land and sea, where it is difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the...

It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was...

We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time when the potato was exotic. Nowadays, children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...

The mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with them? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic meter of mud flat...

This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middelzee was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...

Want some magic while walking the Frisia Coast Trail? If you happen to walk the beach at night, expect the unexpected. Sure, you might...

The Hague, June 29, 2013. The day Zwaantje Vink-Brouwer, widow of Piet Vink, together with a party of local government people, re-opened...

Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...

In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separations going through Europe and the world in...

It is a well known fact the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighter in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or as...

"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...

Besides Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 recommendation in her  song ; what kind of boots would we recommend to hike the Frisia Coast Trail? The...