The train would bring him from Groningen to Amsterdam where he would meet his friends from the Dutch Caribean island, Curacao. Crash they would, at their friend’s place Vincent, who squatted a great floor in an old building on Spui straat, just a few doors away from...

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was always a beacon of decorum. High on the walls the names of all the classic composers, whose music has been conducted in the past hundred years that the Concertgebouw existed.   Where classic music loving Amsterdam, the cultural...

In 2013 Putin visited the Netherlands and Amsterdam to celebrate 400 years of relations. It was Peter the Great that came to Amsterdam to see why the Republic was so successful and looking at the canal district he came up with the idea of St. Petersburg.  Yes, the...