Discover UNESCO: Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout Windmills are great. They are not only great because their slowly turning wings look beautiful in the flat, windswept landscapes, but also because they are an extremely fascinating type of historical architecture. These huge wood and brick machines were both workplace and home for many Dutch families in the […]
Time Travel to Bourtange Star Fort Village
Only two kilometers off the border with northern Germany lies the small village of Bourtange, within the Dutch province of Groningen. But this was not an ordinary village, it was actually an amazingly well preserved star fort village, so well preserved that walking through the stone gates really felt like travelling back in time and […]