When I bought my first adult bike two years ago, I gritted my teeth and settled on a Huffy Cranbook. It was good enough, since it had a single gear, coaster brakes, an upright rider position, and the capacity to take car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/11/20/Dutch-Bicycles-Are-Obviously-Far-Superior-to-Those-Available-in-North-America/The canals of Amsterdam have been winding their way through the city for 800 years. Construction of a new metro line made it necessary to clean them out, and an amazing variety of items have been dredged up from the bott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/10/Dredging-Up-Urban-History/George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch Impressionist painter, a contemporary of Van Gogh, who he painted alongside in France for a while. Breitner began taking photographs to use as a reference for his paintings, but also u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/01/Vintage-Amsterdam-Through-an-Artists-Eye/The U.S. exports more food than any other country... ...the world. Who is #2? Believe it or not, it's the Netherlands , which is tiny, only a thousand miles from the Ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/07/The-Tiny-Country-that-Feeds-the-World/This is a story of two fast food outlets in Nijver... ...is a story of two fast food outlets in Nijverdal, Netherlands . Raymond Nijland runs a Subway shop in the Dutch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/13/No-Way/Do you see the face in this image by Wenceslas Hol... ...d. These pictures became somewhat of a fad in the Netherlands during the 1600s. Prior to the Renaissance, land...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/05/17th-Century-Anthropomorphic-Landscapes/How the Dutch defeated the Spanish invasion in the... ...stantism had taken root in the Spanish-controlled Netherlands . After trying out slightly gentler methods, Phili... ...massacres spread quickly through the rest of the Netherlands , and resistance became the only way the Dutch cou... ...urther complicat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/01/Ice-Skates-Won-the-War/(YouTube link)Life can be hard.This guy in the Netherlands just wants to put his garbage in the dumpster. Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/08/Taking-Out-the-Garbage/Organizations like Make-A-Wish do everything they... ...ted is what these groups are all about, and while Netherlands -based Ambulance Wish Foundation is a new org they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/23/Images-Of-Terminally-Ill-Patients-Living-Out-Their-Final-Wish/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWmAIhz43S4](Video Link)Amsterdam is a city of bicycles and a city of canals. As a result, many bikes end up in the canals. Lots of other junk does, too, including shopping carts, cars, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/26/Giant-Claw-Machine-Pulls-Bikes-out-of-Amsterdams-Canals/
