Comenius presentationobs De DubbelsterAmersfoort, the Netherlands

‘A taste of Europe’

Introduction

• Obs de Dubbelster situated in Amersfoort• The Netherlands has12 provinces • Amersfoort is in the centre of the Netherlands in the

province of Utrecht• 16.515.057 people on 41.528 km² = 398 people per km² • Multicultural society• Monarchy – Queen Beatrix• Flag: red/white/blue• Symbol of the Netherlands: Orange Lion

Koppelpoort

Obs de Dubbelster Tower

Lange Jan

A taste of the typically Dutch

• Tulips/ flowers• Wooden shoes /Klompen• Edam and Gouda Cheese• Delftware• 20 million bicycles• Amsterdam canals and historic buildings• Old-fashioned and modern windmills

A taste of the Dutch (under) waterworld

• Netherlands: 18% of the area consists of rivers, lakes, canals etc.

• More than 30% lies below sea level• Water management:

– Dikes/delta-works/afsluitdijk– Land of rivers (Rhine, Meuse, IJssel)– Old and new bridges

• Transport over water, the port of Rotterdam

Delta works

30% below sea level

Water management

Dikes

Delta works are necessary

Afsluitdijk

Zeeland bridge

Erasmus bridge Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam

A taste of Dutch events

• Traditional sailing events

• Ice-skating (elfstedentocht 200 km), Thialf

• Traditional new-year dive in sea

• Sinterklaas

• Queensday – vrijmarkt

Replica of the

VOC ship

‘Batavia’, 1628

Modern sailing events

Speed skating

New-year dive, Scheveningen

Sinterklaas, 5 December

Queens day,

Market on queensday

QUEENSDAY APRIL 30

A taste of Dutch art and culture

• Great Dutch Painters

– Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

– Jan Steen (1626-1679)

– Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

– Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

• Dutch culture

– The diary of Anna Frank

Jan Steen

Johannes Vermeer

Vincent van Gogh

Rembrandt van Rijn

Diary Of

Anna Frank

A taste of the NetherlandsWe eat a lot of international dishes. There is no such thing as Dutch restaurant.But we do have some typical Dutch food.

• For breakfast and lunch we eat Bread, bread with chocolate sprinkles, apple-syrup, cheese, ham, etc.

• For dinner we have potatoes and stew• In the winter we eat Pea-soup• We have a very special way of eating salty herring • For snacks we eat Frikandel, kroket and bitterballen. It’s meat

prepared in varies ways and fried.• Poffertjes (tiny pancakes)• We eat a lot of biscuits, Stroopwafels (syrup-waffle) and

Pepernoten (spicy biscuits) are typical dutch• Drop (it’s a very salty candy)

Bread

Potatoes and stew

Pea soup

Our way of eating herring (fish)

Bitterballen

kroket

Frikandel

snacks

Poffertjes (tiny pancakes)

Sirup waffles

Pepernoten, Pepernoten, (spicy biscuits(spicy biscuits)

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