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“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” These were words of the geography teacher at high school...

On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...

Peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...

For those outdoor freaks who consider hiking the mud flats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know this is, in fact, not a worldly...

July 1987. The two Frisian bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...

About 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...

The Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in province Drenthe, the Netherlands. It is...

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

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

The arrival of the Romans in northwest Europe at the beginning of the era, with the Rhine as frontier, was the starting signal for five...

Tidal marshlands and the Frisians are a dual entity. It is on these treeless salt marshes, the Chauci and the Frisii (Frisians) dwelled...

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. Groove...

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

Who has not dined at least once in an '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 'The Great Wall'? At least you've been at one for a...

On the edge 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 sea is...

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

It was a Yankee by the name 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 the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...

With all the seasonal festivities this month, it is appropriate to serve you a flavorful cocktail. It is a cocktail from the list 'Myths...

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...