1. Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort, the Netherlands ‘A taste of Europe’

2. 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

3. Koppelpoort Obs de Dubbelster Tower Lange Jan

6. 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

12. 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

13. Delta works 30% below sea level Water management

14. Dikes

15. Delta works are necessary Afsluitdijk

16. Zeeland bridge Erasmus bridge Rotterdam

17. Port of Rotterdam

18. A taste of Dutch events Traditional sailing events Ice-skating (elfstedentocht 200 km), Thialf Traditional new-year dive in sea Sinterklaas Queensday – vrijmarkt

19. Replica of the VOC ship ‘Batavia’, 1628 Modern sailing events

20. Speed skating

21. New-year dive, Scheveningen

22. Sinterklaas, 5 December

23. Queens day, Market on queensday QUEENSDAY APRIL 30

24. 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

25. Jan Steen Johannes Vermeer Vincent van Gogh Rembrandt van Rijn

26. Diary Of Anna Frank

27. A taste of the Netherlands We 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)

28. Bread

29. Potatoes and stew Pea soup

30. Our way of eating herring (fish) Bitterballen kroket Frikandel snacks

31. Poffertjes (tiny pancakes) Sirup waffles Pepernoten, (spicy biscuits (spicy biscuits)

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