Tag: SUMMER SERIES 2024
Liver sausage ice cream is the unexpected hit of ice cream maker Jeroen
Gulp, swallow and the dog ice cream is gone when George starts eating it. According to his owner, the dog from Amersfoort prefers to visit the local ice cream parlor…
Liver sausage ice cream is a hit in Amersfoort: a thousand dogs have already received one
“Watch out for my hands!”, says Dicky. She is sitting on the terrace of the Vitelli ice cream parlor in Amersfoort and has just ordered two dog ice creams. As…
Marrit hates dressing up but designs the most beautiful costumes
She hates dressing up and yet Marrit van der Burgt sits every day between glittering beak masks, classic corsets and the red leather coat of the King of Katoren. Costume…
Strings, snacks and sangria: ‘Paul’s Patatboot is a phenomenon here’
Everyone gets a fist bump from Paul. “Hey, dude,” he calls out with a slight Amsterdam accent to a passing canoe. “I haven’t seen you in a long time!” The…
Lizzy’s outfits are always second-hand and eccentric
Almost everything I wear is connected to someone in my life. Most of my jewelry, for example. I inherited two rings and necklaces from my grandmother. I am also incredibly…
Summer in the Soesterkwartier: ‘I can’t swim and barbecue in a flat’
“I can’t swim or barbecue in a flat,” she says. She looks back. In the garden of barely 10 square meters there is a scooter, a fatbike, three garden chairs…
Will we soon be 3D printing broccoli and pizza? In IJsselstein they think so
It still seems like a pipe dream. Why would you turn your broccoli into ‘ink’, or puree it, and then print it again? Yet it is already happening in several…
Margreet collects cards of the Dom under scaffolding: ‘There is a lively market in postcards’
“So there is a very lively market in old postcards. In Utrecht there is a shop that sells antique cards,” says Margreet. “There are webshops that do that too, but…
This is how Lage Vuursche became the pancake capital: ‘If you eat them anywhere, it’s here’
One village, five restaurants. And they all serve the same thing: the traditional Dutch pancake. Full terraces and a shortage of parking spaces show that tourists still haven’t had enough…
Cees turned his pigsty into a moped museum
Rijksen already had a considerable collection of mopeds when a friend died in 2012, leaving him forty mopeds. “I didn’t know that either,” the pensioner says, laughing. At first he…