comenius presentation obs de dubbelster amersfoort, the netherlands ‘a taste of europe’
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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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