Frisia Coast Trail.com

In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....

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

The arrival of the Romans in the northwest of Europe at the beginning of the era, with the River Rhine as a frontier, was the starting...

Brooklyn. Named after the charming village of Breukelen in the Netherlands. Its original Frisian name was Attingahem. With only a twist...

Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii  or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...

The hearth was, in pre- and early medieval times, the Holy of Holies. The heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove....

In the year 516, King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in – probably – the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the...

Who has not dined at least once in an '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 万里长城  ('Great Wall of China')? Certainly, you have...

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...

In this blog post, we will explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...

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,...

With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it's appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It's a cocktail from...

This blog is a virtual hike. Grab a coffee and go 200 kilometers per hour. When ploughing through piles of research on where the Frisians...

September 2018, one of the bastards hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or, as the French say, la GR-vingt . The GR20 is...

We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...

This blog post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...

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...

Did you know that between 328,770 and 502,190 people lost their lives around the North Sea? On the flip side: millions of possible...