Hello!
We are the Europe Expedition team. The members of the team are: Santi, Marc, Kiko, Abel and Dani.
We are going to explain you the territory, the gastronomy, the sports, the art and music and other things of Netherland.
10/02/2009
9/30/2009
Territory
Rivers
The country is divided into two main parts by three large rivers, the Rhine (Rijn). The river Amstel in the city's centre of the Dutch capital Amsterdam.
The south-western part of the Netherlands is actually a massive river delta. Only one significant branch of the Rhine flows northeastwards, the IJssel river, discharging into the IJsselmeer, the former Zuiderzee ('southern sea'). This river also happens to form a linguistic divide.
Floods
The areas of the Netherlands that are above sea level. Over the centuries, the Dutch coastline has changed considerably as a result of human intervention and natural disasters. Most notable in terms of land loss is the 1134 storm, which created the archipelago of Zeeland in the south west.
Climate
The predominant wind direction in the Netherlands is south-west, which causes a moderate maritime climate, with cool summers and mild winters. The following tables are based on mean measurements by the weather station in De Bilt between 1971 and 2000.
Nature
The Netherlands has 20 national parks and hundreds of other nature reserves. Most are owned by Staatsbosbeheer and Natuurmonumenten and include lakes, heathland, woods, dunes and other habitats.
Phytogeographically, the Netherlands are shared between the Atlantic European and Central European provinces of the Circumboreal Region within the Boreal Kingdom. The territory of the Netherlands belongs to the ecoregion of Atlantic mixed forests.
8/10/2006
Dutch cuisine
Dutch cuisine is shaped by the practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for raising crops and the raising of domesticated animals and the history of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is renowned for its varieties of cheese and is where Dutch process chocolate originated. Dutch cuisine is somewhat limited in its diversity of dishes (like many Northern European cuisines) and includes a high.
Coffee and tea
Hot chocolate is also a very popular drink in the Netherlands
Dutch people invite friends over for "koffietijd" (coffee time), which consists of coffee and cake or a biscuit, served between 10 and 11 a.m. (before lunch) and/or between 7 and 8 pm (after dinner) The Dutch drink coffee and tea throughout the day, often served with a single biscuit.
Café au lait is also very common. It is called koffie verkeerd (literally "wrong-way-round-coffee") and consists of equal parts black coffee and hot milk. The Dutch drink tea without milk and the tea is quite a lot weaker than the typical English types of tea which are take
n with milk. Other hot drinks used to include warm lemonade, called kwast (hot water with lemon juice), and anijsmelk (hot milk with aniseed). In the autumn and winter the very popular hot chocolate or chocolate milk is drunk. Both anijsmelk and kwast are hardly drunk anymore and have lost their popularity.
Hutspot, made with potatoes, carrots, and onions served with meats like rookworst (smoked sausage), slow-cooked meat, or bacon and put carrots, and onions.
Stamppot rauwe andijvie, raw endive mashed with hot potatoes, served with diced fried speck (a kind of bacon).
Zuurkoolstamppot, sauerkraut mashed with potatoes.
Served with fried bacon or a sausage of curry.
Boerenkoolstamppot, curly kale mixed with potatoes, served with gravy, mustard, and rookworst sausage. This dish, boerenkool met rookworst, (which could be translated literally as farmers cabbage with smoked sausage), is made of mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage and it is usually eaten with smoked sausage.
Dutch cuisine is shaped by the practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for raising crops and the raising of domesticated animals and the history of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is renowned for its varieties of cheese and is where Dutch process chocolate originated. Dutch cuisine is somewhat limited in its diversity of dishes (like many Northern European cuisines) and includes a high.
Coffee and tea
Hot chocolate is also a very popular drink in the Netherlands
Dutch people invite friends over for "koffietijd" (coffee time), which consists of coffee and cake or a biscuit, served between 10 and 11 a.m. (before lunch) and/or between 7 and 8 pm (after dinner) The Dutch drink coffee and tea throughout the day, often served with a single biscuit.
Café au lait is also very common. It is called koffie verkeerd (literally "wrong-way-round-coffee") and consists of equal parts black coffee and hot milk. The Dutch drink tea without milk and the tea is quite a lot weaker than the typical English types of tea which are take
n with milk. Other hot drinks used to include warm lemonade, called kwast (hot water with lemon juice), and anijsmelk (hot milk with aniseed). In the autumn and winter the very popular hot chocolate or chocolate milk is drunk. Both anijsmelk and kwast are hardly drunk anymore and have lost their popularity.
Dinner
Well-known Dutch dishes for are typical meals:
Hutspot, made with potatoes, carrots, and onions served with meats like rookworst (smoked sausage), slow-cooked meat, or bacon and put carrots, and onions.
Stamppot rauwe andijvie, raw endive mashed with hot potatoes, served with diced fried speck (a kind of bacon).
Hete bliksem (literally Hot Lightning), boiled
potatoes and green apples, served with "stroop" (syrup) or tossed with diced speck.
potatoes and green apples, served with "stroop" (syrup) or tossed with diced speck.Zuurkoolstamppot, sauerkraut mashed with potatoes.
Served with fried bacon or a sausage of curry.Boerenkoolstamppot, curly kale mixed with potatoes, served with gravy, mustard, and rookworst sausage. This dish, boerenkool met rookworst, (which could be translated literally as farmers cabbage with smoked sausage), is made of mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage and it is usually eaten with smoked sausage.Sweets
A famous Dutch sweet is zoute drop, salty liquorice and liquorice sweets. These sweets are small, black and look much like gums. The four types of drop are soft sweet, soft salt, hard sweet and hard salt drop. Drop can be bought in shops and pharmacies and has a medical function as it helps to cure throat and stomach aches.
Another popular Dutch sweet is the Stroopwafel ("stroop" meaning syrup). A thin wafer made typically in a pizelle pan is sliced horizontally and sandwiched with a light caramel syrup, the stroop.
Another popular Dutch sweet is the Stroopwafel ("stroop" meaning syrup). A thin wafer made typically in a pizelle pan is sliced horizontally and sandwiched with a light caramel syrup, the stroop.
Chocolate
In 1828, Coenraad Johannes van Houten developed the first cocoa powder producing machine in the Netherlands. When he returned to England, he brought the recipe with him, introducing milk chocolate to Europe. The powder much like the instant cocoa powder used today was easier to stir into milk and water, and led to another very important discovery: solid chocolate. and making powdered cocoa and cocoa butter. Van Houten also developed the so-called Dutch process of treating chocolate with alkali to remove the bitter taste. By using cocoa powder and low amounts of cocoa butter, bar chocolate was then possible to manufacture. Droste is today one of the main Dutch chocolate brands.
Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is fairly common in The Netherlands, with about 5 percent of the Dutch population not eating any meat or fish. Around 22 percent of the Dutch call themselves 'part-time vegetarians' and abstain from eating fish or meat a few days a week. As a result meat substitutes are popular, with an annual growth of around 25%. Veganism is uncommon in the Netherlands.
11/10/2001
MUSIC
The Netherlands has multiple musical traditions. Contemporary Dutch popular music (Nederpop) is heavily influenced by music styles that emerged in the 1950s, in the United Kingdom and United States. The style is sung in both Dutch and English. Some of the latters exponents, such as Golden Earring and Shocking Blue have attained world wide fame.
More traditional Dutch music however is a genre known as "Levenslied", meaning Song of / about life. These songs have catchy, simple rhythms and melodies, and are always built up on couplets and refrains. Themes are often somewhat sentimental and include love, death and loneliness. Essential are traditional Dutch musical instruments such as the accordion and the barrel organ. Though in the recent years, many levenslied-artists also use synthesizers and guitars for their music. Artists in this genere include André Hazes, Willy Alberti and Koos.
More traditional Dutch music however is a genre known as "Levenslied", meaning Song of / about life. These songs have catchy, simple rhythms and melodies, and are always built up on couplets and refrains. Themes are often somewhat sentimental and include love, death and loneliness. Essential are traditional Dutch musical instruments such as the accordion and the barrel organ. Though in the recent years, many levenslied-artists also use synthesizers and guitars for their music. Artists in this genere include André Hazes, Willy Alberti and Koos.
10/28/2001
ART
The art of the low païses is one of most estimated of the world for which one of the big painters was Vicent Van Gogh.
(Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 1890).
With sixteen years it entered as apprentice the subsidiary of The Hague of the gallery of Parisian art Goupil and Cie., founded by his uncle Vincent; there it he knew the works of Barbizon's school.
The movement of They Go Gogh in 1873 indicated London the beginning of the first creative stage.
About 1880, after being expelled by his excessive implication, he discovered in the painting his authentic vocation, considering it to be a route to console the humanity.
The first mental crisis, in which there was cut part of the left ear, took place in the Christmas of the same year 1888.
In April of the following year, before the dread of losing his aptitude to work, he asked to be deposited in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence's psychiatric hospital where he remained twelve months.
After suffering diverse assaults and before the inability to go out to do paint on the outside he realized works related to the hospital: Rembrandt, Delacroix y Millet.
He died on July 29, 1890 (37) Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Museums
With a whole of almost thousand museums, Holland has the major number of museums of the world. Museum "Rijksmuseum" and the Museum, in Ámsterdam, the Museum Boymans - Beuningen Goes in Rotterdam, the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Palace het Loo in Apeldoorn. The contemporary art can admire, for example, in the Museum Stedelijk de Ámsterdam, the Museum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo, the Museum Bonefanten in Maastricht and the Museum Abbe Goes in Eindhoven. Big events, they attract every year many foreign visitors and strengthen the cultural image of Holland.
Plastic arts
The Netherlands have a long pictorial tradition. Painters like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, Go Gogh and Piet Mondriaan, enjoy world reputation. But also in the contemporary painting and sculpture, the Dutch artists keep this tradition alive(vivacious). The contemporary Dutch artists are widely represented in events that take place abroad, like the "Biennial show" of Venice and her(it) "Documents" of Kassel. The principal painters of postwar period are Karel Appel and Corneille, both members of the group CHARGES and still active. Other contemporary known artists are Ger van Elk, Jan Dibbets, Peter Struyken, Rob Scholte, Marthe Röling and Marlene Dumas.
Some works
(Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 1890).
With sixteen years it entered as apprentice the subsidiary of The Hague of the gallery of Parisian art Goupil and Cie., founded by his uncle Vincent; there it he knew the works of Barbizon's school.
The movement of They Go Gogh in 1873 indicated London the beginning of the first creative stage.
About 1880, after being expelled by his excessive implication, he discovered in the painting his authentic vocation, considering it to be a route to console the humanity.
The first mental crisis, in which there was cut part of the left ear, took place in the Christmas of the same year 1888.
In April of the following year, before the dread of losing his aptitude to work, he asked to be deposited in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence's psychiatric hospital where he remained twelve months.
After suffering diverse assaults and before the inability to go out to do paint on the outside he realized works related to the hospital: Rembrandt, Delacroix y Millet.
He died on July 29, 1890 (37) Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Museums
With a whole of almost thousand museums, Holland has the major number of museums of the world. Museum "Rijksmuseum" and the Museum, in Ámsterdam, the Museum Boymans - Beuningen Goes in Rotterdam, the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Palace het Loo in Apeldoorn. The contemporary art can admire, for example, in the Museum Stedelijk de Ámsterdam, the Museum Kröller-Müller in Otterlo, the Museum Bonefanten in Maastricht and the Museum Abbe Goes in Eindhoven. Big events, they attract every year many foreign visitors and strengthen the cultural image of Holland.
Plastic arts
The Netherlands have a long pictorial tradition. Painters like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, Go Gogh and Piet Mondriaan, enjoy world reputation. But also in the contemporary painting and sculpture, the Dutch artists keep this tradition alive(vivacious). The contemporary Dutch artists are widely represented in events that take place abroad, like the "Biennial show" of Venice and her(it) "Documents" of Kassel. The principal painters of postwar period are Karel Appel and Corneille, both members of the group CHARGES and still active. Other contemporary known artists are Ger van Elk, Jan Dibbets, Peter Struyken, Rob Scholte, Marthe Röling and Marlene Dumas.
Some works
1/01/2001
Transports
Routes of netherland
To visit beautiful villages in netherland use the train and bus:
visit this page and inform to the train routes.
visit this page and inform to the bus routes.
To visit beautiful villages in netherland use the train and bus:
visit this page and inform to the train routes.
visit this page and inform to the bus routes.
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